On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Nicolas Pitre wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2006, Peter Eriksen wrote: > > > Greetings Gitlings, > > > > I've been trying to implement an alternative algorithm > > for diff_delta(). I'm getting close to something that > > works, but now I'm stuck! > > Nothing outside diff-delta.c and patch-delta.c is aware of the delta > data format. So if your version is meant to be a transparent > replacement then it should pass all tests. If it doesn't then it is > broken. > > To help you play around you could try the test-delta utility (make > test-delta to build it). > > So: > > test-delta -d file1 file2 delta_file > test-delta -p file1 delta_file file3 > cmp file2 file3 > > You should always have file3 identical to file2. Out of curiosity I just tried your diff-delta version with test-delta and it produced a segmentation fault on the first attempt. It also has lots of compilation warnings. Nicolas - : send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html