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xdelta newbie question
by Val on Wednesday 13/Oct/2004, @20:49

Hi guys,

What are these .xdelta files all about? I know they are like binary diffs but where can I get the actual xdelta utility? I found something that claimed to be beta at www.xdelta.org. Is this the thing I should use? Thanks in advance.

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Re: xdelta newbie question
by Anonymous on Wednesday 13/Oct/2004, @23:55

www.xdelta.org is the right site, be sure to pick up xdelta 1.

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Re: xdelta newbie question
by AC on Thursday 14/Oct/2004, @00:06

Perhaps:
http://freshmeat.net/projects/xdelta/

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Re: xdelta newbie question
by Val on Thursday 14/Oct/2004, @02:07

Yup, I found it. It has stable version dated by 2001. So I tried it and it worked.

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Re: xdelta newbie question
by Val on Sunday 17/Oct/2004, @21:39

BTW, doaes someone have an idea why xdelta's are for .tar, not .tar.bz2? I think the latter would be much more convenient...

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Re: xdelta newbie question
by Anonymous on Sunday 17/Oct/2004, @23:28

The xdelta files created for the tar files are smaller.

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Re: xdelta newbie question
by Brian Harring on Saturday 12/Mar/2005, @01:23

Delta compression (differencing) sucks against compressed files- a single byte change in the new version can result in all bytes after N in the output stream differing.
Differencers are ran against uncompressed data, then the patch is compressed (automatically with xdelta) to minimize the patch size....

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