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Johannes Stezenbach
js at linuxtv.org
Sun Mar 26 22:16:57 UTC 2006
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 21:40 +0100, Mads Kiilerich wrote:
>
> > I fail to understand why we have "everything is binary", but at the same
> > time we try to store file revisions as textual deltas,
>
> File revisions are stored as binary deltas.
I looked at bdiff.c and it seems "binary diff" is based
on "lines" seperated by '\n'. IOW binaries which do not
contain '\n' bytes are not diffed at all.
Johannes
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