jmacd / xdelta

open-source binary diff, delta/differential compression tools, VCDIFF/RFC 3284 delta compression
http://xdelta.org
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Regarding the operating mechanism #267

Open Renz2018 opened 1 year ago

Renz2018 commented 1 year ago

I have a question. When diffing two tar files, are they treated as a whole or are they unpacked and diffed file by file? Which approach generates a smaller diff file?