Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 23:07:05 -0400 From: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9 Message-ID: <CAPyFy2Caxx-MSRqFruV%2Bq-A9LJbzP-okJvWLAmQaLKgOW8uQnQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201903150239.x2F2dH9m028042@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> References: <CAPyFy2B09hOx=tSNOMSCyhW9SdP_5ySfOuTFQZvZutfhgTi2bg@mail.gmail.com> <201903150239.x2F2dH9m028042@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
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On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 22:39, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> wrote: > > 4. There is no easy way to show > "changed byte at offset 0x432 from 0xef to 0xfe" But this is not that easy with uuencoded files, either - I'd just end up uudecoding both files before running cmp -x. And for the case under discussion here (firmware files) we treat them as opaque binary objects; comparing them is generally not interesting anyway. > Do we have a decent binary diff and binary patch tool? We have bsdiff and bspatch, but their output is not designed for human consumption or editing.home | help
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