XO in-field upgrades

Martin Langhoff martin.langhoff at gmail.com
Sun Jun 24 19:46:33 EDT 2007


On 6/25/07, C. Scott Ananian <cscott at laptop.org> wrote:
>  Also, I think we've discussed shipping binary
> diffs rather than git's integral blobs,

Git can also use "thin" packs which are basically binary diffs. So you
_can_ use the git machinery for distributing upgrades with truly
minimal bw usage -- if you can guarantee taht the receiving end will
have the thing that it's meant to diff against ;-)

cheers


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