Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261272AbVDUKdE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:33:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261274AbVDUKdE (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:33:04 -0400 Received: from dns.toxicfilms.tv ([150.254.220.184]:24240 "EHLO dns.toxicfilms.tv") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261272AbVDUKdB (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 06:33:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:32:59 +0200 From: Maciej Soltysiak X-Mailer: The Bat! (v3.0) UNREG / CD5BF9353B3B7091 Reply-To: Maciej Soltysiak X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <1617591394.20050421123259@dns.toxicfilms.tv> To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: strange incremental patch size [2.6.12-rc2 to 2.6.12-rc3] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 897 Lines: 32 Hi, These are the sizes of rc2 and rc3 patches # ls -la patch-2.6.12* -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 18011382 Apr 4 18:50 patch-2.6.12-rc2 -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 19979854 Apr 21 02:29 patch-2.6.12-rc3 Let us make an incremental patch from rc2 to rc3 # interdiff patch-2.6.12-rc2 patch-2.6.12-rc3 >x Let us see how big it is. # ls -ld x -rw-r--r-- 1 root src 37421924 Apr 21 12:28 x How come interdiff from rc2 (18MB) to rc3 (20MB) gave me 37MB worth of patch-code ? I would expect something about 2MB but 40MB ? The patching with the incremental patch took very long compared to other rc2-rc3-type patches, that is how I noticed it. Regards, Maciej - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/