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From: David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: Update 2.1-STABLE -> 2.1.5-RELEASE
To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes)
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 1996 15:59:54 +1000 (EST)
Cc: nate@mt.sri.com, stable@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <199607020217.TAA00166@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Jul 1, 96 07:17:54 pm
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>> > Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>> > /dev/sd0g      158863   127050    19103    87%    /usr/src
>> > 
>> > 11MB vs ~127MB for a full src tree, both uncompressed, but compression
>> > should still keep the same 10:1 relative size difference.
>> 
>> This assumes that the diff takes into account all of the changes that
>> have been made.
>
>It had damn well better take into account all of the changes, or cvs is
>serously broken if it does not!
>
>> Unfortunately, if you apply that diff to a virgin 2.1R
>> tree you won't get the same tree as a 2.1.5 tree due to
>> removal/additions and such. 
>  ^No     ^Yes

I generate all XFree86 patches using 'cvs rdiff', and it gets all additions
and removals (providing the patch is applied with the '-E' flag), except
for removals of directories.

David