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To: Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Zeno Gantner <zeno.gantner@xxxxxxxxxxx>, freeciv@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [Freeciv] Re: diff-files available?
From: Tomasz Wegrzanowski <maniek@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Jul 2000 18:01:33 +0200

On Sat, Jul 01, 2000 at 10:20:16AM -0400, Jeff Mallatt wrote:
> At 2000/07/01 08:05 , Zeno Gantner wrote:
> >Hi guys,
> >When I started playing freeciv some time ago, every update could be done
> by the program "patch", and there were diff-files available at the ftp server.
> >Now I can't find them anywhere. I don't want to download more than 2m!!
> Does someome know where there are these files?
> 
> At every release, I check for "reasonable" diffs.  The diff between 1.10.0
> and 1.11.0 was two-thirds the size of the 1.11.0 delivery -- I figured it
> wasn't worth it.
> 
> If a diff is ever small enoungh, I'll post it.  I've been thinking that it
> has to be less than about half the size of the delivery to be worth
> posting.  If there is a demand for larger diffs, I can handle that.  If so,
> what size cut-off should I use?

Use plain diff -rN instead of diff -ruN ???



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