Hello,
I found the man page for rdiff to be confusing. In particular, it
isn't clear how to make a diff or how to apply that diff. It
mentions signature files and basis files without explaining what
they are. It would have helped me immensely if I saw this in the
man page:
To make a delta file between original.bin and updated.bin:
rdiff signature original.bin original.bin.sig
rdiff delta original.bin.sig updated.bin updated.bin.delta
#rm updated.bin
To restore updated.bin using original.bin and updated.bin.delta
(this assumes the file updated.bin is now absent):
rdiff patch original.bin updated.bin.delta updated.bin
I saw this with rdiff (librsync 2.0.2). Please let me know if this
has already been fixed, or if I reported this in the wrong place.
Thanks!
Aaron Miller
