From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 03:56:53 GMT
Subject: Re: [offtopic?] xdelta patch format wrapper
Message-ID: <7vprv1y0e2.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <47B26830.6090501@catalyst.net.nz>

Martin Langhoff <martin@catalyst.net.nz> writes:

> Junio C Hamano wrote:
>> I am lost as to your objective because you seem to be keeping a
>> whole LOT more than I would have imagined for a specialized
>> purpose file format.
>
> My source files are 2 zipfiles that I know contain 1 xml file, and then
> may contain any arbitrary files. As a specialised file format is a
> pretty general case ;-) Because of compression, xdeltas of the zipfiles
> aren't good. So what I want to do is to diff the 2 unzipped directories
> - nothing git-specific, I could use diff -urN.
>
> Git diff *is* better in that it handles binary files, but we pay a
> sizable cost in being reversible.

Did I forget to say that I am Ok with --oneway option?

In fact, we started as oneway but we _fixed_ it to make it
reversible soon after the initial version ;-)  So "git apply"
still can grok oneway format.