Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2019 20:36:01 -0700 (PDT) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> To: Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org> Cc: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@freebsd.org>, 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: <201903150336.x2F3a1ZN028366@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net> In-Reply-To: <CAPyFy2Caxx-MSRqFruV%2Bq-A9LJbzP-okJvWLAmQaLKgOW8uQnQ@mail.gmail.com>
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[ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] > 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" How do we represent Copyright and License in such objects? This is an issue that is totally left out of even .uu version. > 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. > -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd.org
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