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| author | Dario Nicodemi <dario.sbo@gmail.com> | 2010-03-21 21:31:27 -0500 |
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| committer | Robby Workman <rworkman@slackbuilds.org> | 2010-05-13 14:20:21 +0200 |
| commit | 7c097f27613f58ca7c71fa26928d5ca683d9f1f7 (patch) | |
| tree | ce1502f9440c6cbbd6349f75f79abdb98038d405 /misc/xdelta/README | |
| parent | c432c5085618f5800a3f641ce7e97b708c146c6f (diff) | |
misc/xdelta: Added. Xdelta is a binary patch creation tool.
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diff --git a/misc/xdelta/README b/misc/xdelta/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000..6624fddcd9b1a --- /dev/null +++ b/misc/xdelta/README @@ -0,0 +1,9 @@ +xdelta - Binary delta generator + +Xdelta is a program designed to compute changes between files. These changes +(deltas) are similar to the output of the "diff" program in that they may be +used to store and transmit only the changes between files. However, unlike +diff(1), the output of xdelta is not expressed in a human-readable format. + +Xdelta uses a fast, linear algorithm and performs well on both binary and +text files. |