From: Peter Eriksen <s022018@student.dtu.dk>
Date: Sun, 09 Apr 2006 17:34:09 GMT
Subject: Re: [RFH] Exploration of an alternative diff_delta() algorithm
Message-ID: <20060409173409.GB23908@erlang.gbar.dtu.dk>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0604091307460.2215@localhost.localdomain>

On Sun, Apr 09, 2006 at 01:14:31PM -0400, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
...
> Nothing outside diff-delta.c and patch-delta.c is aware of the delta 
> data format.  So if your version is meant to be a transparent 
> replacement then it should pass all tests.  If it doesn't then it is 
> broken.
> 
> To help you play around you could try the test-delta utility (make 
> test-delta to build it).
> 
> So:
> 
> 	test-delta -d file1 file2 delta_file
> 	test-delta -p file1 delta_file file3
> 	cmp file2 file3

My tests of these kinds doesn't show any errors.  Though, if file2 is
empty, test-delta writes: "file2: Invalid argument".

Peter