Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261379AbVDUNse (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:48:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261380AbVDUNse (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:48:34 -0400 Received: from nevyn.them.org ([66.93.172.17]:65239 "EHLO nevyn.them.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261379AbVDUNsc (ORCPT ); Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:48:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 09:48:31 -0400 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Maciej Soltysiak Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: strange incremental patch size [2.6.12-rc2 to 2.6.12-rc3] Message-ID: <20050421134831.GA30943@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Maciej Soltysiak , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1617591394.20050421123259@dns.toxicfilms.tv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1617591394.20050421123259@dns.toxicfilms.tv> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 921 Lines: 31 On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 12:32:59PM +0200, Maciej Soltysiak wrote: > 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 ? Try interdiff -p1? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC - 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/