Re: [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects

From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>
Date: May 3, 2005, 16:54 UTC
Message-ID: <200505031254.43952.mason@suse.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0505031104080.14033@localhost.localdomain>

On Tuesday 03 May 2005 11:04, Nicolas Pitre wrote:

> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote:

Show 9 quoted lines

> > coffee:~/git/linus.orig # echo foo > foo
> > coffee:~/git/linus.orig # echo foo2 > foo2
> > coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -d foo foo2 delta1
> > coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ls -la delta1
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root root 14 2005-05-03 10:36 delta1
> > coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -p foo delta1 out
> > *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804b008 ***
>
> OK, doh!

Thanks, this one works ;) I'll kick off a run with this replacing zdelta, should be around 3 hours. For my small tree run with 300 patches, its faster than zdelta with about the same space savings.

-chris