Re: [PATCH] add the ability to create and retrieve delta objects

[Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>]

On Tue, 3 May 2005, Chris Mason wrote:

> On Tuesday 03 May 2005 04:06, Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > On Mon, 2 May 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > If you do something like this, you want such a delta-blob to be named by
> > > the sha1 of the result, so that things that refer to it can transparently
> > > see either the original blob _or_ the "deltified" one, and will never
> > > care.
> >
> > Yep, that's what I've done last weekend (and just made it actually
> > work since people are getting interested).
> 
> Hmmm, something is strange here, am I using this wrong?
> 
> coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -d foo foo2 delta1
> coffee:~/git/linus.orig # ./test-delta -p foo delta1 out
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid next size (fast): 0x0804b008 ***
> Aborted

Can you send me your foo and delta2 files?


Nicolas