Re: strange incremental patch size [2.6.12-rc2 to 2.6.12-rc3]

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:32:59PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> These are the sizes of rc2 and rc3 patches
> 
> # ls -la patch-2.6.12*
> -rw-r--r--  1 root src 18011382 Apr  4 18:50 patch-2.6.12-rc2
> -rw-r--r--  1 root src 19979854 Apr 21 02:29 patch-2.6.12-rc3
> 
> Let us make an incremental patch from rc2 to rc3
> 
> # interdiff patch-2.6.12-rc2 patch-2.6.12-rc3 >x
> 
> Let us see how big it is.
> # ls -ld x
> -rw-r--r--  1 root src 37421924 Apr 21 12:28 x
> 
> How come interdiff from rc2 (18MB) to rc3 (20MB) gave me
> 37MB worth of patch-code ? I would expect something about
> 2MB but 40MB ?

Try interdiff -p1?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC
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