Re: sort of like a diff patch file

2004-03-28 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 15:31, Greger Cronquist wrote: > For just creating diffs, xdelta is even better (in that it creates > smaller diffs very quickly) xdelta requires that you have local access to the two files you want to diff... librsync's rdiff allows you to calculate a small signature which

Re: sort of like a diff patch file

2004-03-28 Thread Greger Cronquist
For just creating diffs, xdelta is even better (in that it creates smaller diffs very quickly) /Greger Donovan Baarda wrote: G'day, On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:37, Steve W. Ingram wrote: Hi there, I was wondering if there was anyway to use rsync to effectively create a 'diff' file? is this

Re: sort of like a diff patch file

2004-03-28 Thread Donovan Baarda
G'day, On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 13:37, Steve W. Ingram wrote: > Hi there, > > I was wondering if there was anyway to use rsync to effectively > create a 'diff' file? is this a FAQ yet? A) rdiff. -- Donovan Baarda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://minkirri.apana.org.au/~abo/ -- To unsubscribe or chang

sort of like a diff patch file

2004-03-28 Thread Steve W. Ingram
Hi there, I was wondering if there was anyway to use rsync to effectively create a 'diff' file? I have a situation where I don't have a network connection to certain files that are multi-gigabyte and binary (mainly), but they vary little. In order for me to have an up-to-date copy of the files,