svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9

Ed Maste emaste at freebsd.org
Fri Mar 15 03:31:18 UTC 2019


On Thu, 14 Mar 2019 at 22:39, Rodney W. Grimes
<freebsd at 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.


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