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avoiding a huge Cygwin patch
- From: Schulman dot Andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov
- To: cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 13:05:48 -0400
- Subject: avoiding a huge Cygwin patch
I want to add PDF and HTML user manuals (about 250 KB and 160 KB,
respectively) into the unison package. The manuals are available for
download at the upstream site, but they aren't included in the package
source archive. This creates two problems:
(1) It will cause the gbs to create an enormous patch file, containing
all of the PDF and HTML manuals in it.
(2) The PDF includes some binary data. I've never tried to use diff and
patch with binary data, but I'm guessing that it's asking for trouble.
So what's the best way to handle this? Is it acceptable to copy the
manuals in after creating the source patch, thereby excluding them from
the patch?
Thanks,
Andrew.