Fossil SCM

Fix typos in documentation and update the size estimate.

drh 2015-01-12 11:35 trunk
Commit ec1197ca01b1c2ea752b27dc78ec50f3aa671ecf
--- www/delta_format.wiki
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<a name="slist"></a><h3>1.3 Segment-List</h3>
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<img src="delta2.gif" align="left" hspace="10">
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<p>The segment-list of a delta describes how to create the target from
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the original by a combination of inserting literal byte-sequences and
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-copying ranges of bytes from the original. This is there the
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+copying ranges of bytes from the original. This is where the
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compression takes place, by encoding the large common parts of
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original and target in small copy instructions.</p>
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<p>The target is constructed from beginning to end, with the data
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generated by each instruction appended after the data of all previous
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<ul>
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<li>Pure text files generate a pure text delta.
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</li>
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<li>Binary files generate a delta that may contain some binary data.
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</li>
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-<li>The delta encoding does not attempt to compress the content
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+<li>The delta encoding does not attempt to compress the content.
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It was considered to be much
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more sensible to do compression using a separate general-purpose
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compression library, like <a href="http://www.zlib.net">zlib</a>.
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</li>
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</ul>
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--- www/delta_format.wiki
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66 <a name="slist"></a><h3>1.3 Segment-List</h3>
67 <img src="delta2.gif" align="left" hspace="10">
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69 <p>The segment-list of a delta describes how to create the target from
70 the original by a combination of inserting literal byte-sequences and
71 copying ranges of bytes from the original. This is there the
72 compression takes place, by encoding the large common parts of
73 original and target in small copy instructions.</p>
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75 <p>The target is constructed from beginning to end, with the data
76 generated by each instruction appended after the data of all previous
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213 <ul>
214 <li>Pure text files generate a pure text delta.
215 </li>
216 <li>Binary files generate a delta that may contain some binary data.
217 </li>
218 <li>The delta encoding does not attempt to compress the content
219 It was considered to be much
220 more sensible to do compression using a separate general-purpose
221 compression library, like <a href="http://www.zlib.net">zlib</a>.
222 </li>
223 </ul>
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--- www/delta_format.wiki
+++ www/delta_format.wiki
@@ -66,11 +66,11 @@
66 <a name="slist"></a><h3>1.3 Segment-List</h3>
67 <img src="delta2.gif" align="left" hspace="10">
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69 <p>The segment-list of a delta describes how to create the target from
70 the original by a combination of inserting literal byte-sequences and
71 copying ranges of bytes from the original. This is where the
72 compression takes place, by encoding the large common parts of
73 original and target in small copy instructions.</p>
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75 <p>The target is constructed from beginning to end, with the data
76 generated by each instruction appended after the data of all previous
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213 <ul>
214 <li>Pure text files generate a pure text delta.
215 </li>
216 <li>Binary files generate a delta that may contain some binary data.
217 </li>
218 <li>The delta encoding does not attempt to compress the content.
219 It was considered to be much
220 more sensible to do compression using a separate general-purpose
221 compression library, like <a href="http://www.zlib.net">zlib</a>.
222 </li>
223 </ul>
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--- www/qandc.wiki
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You do not need any other packages
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(diff, patch, merge, cvs, svn, rcs, git, python, perl, tcl, apache,
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sqlite, and so forth)
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in order to run fossil. Fossil runs just fine in a chroot jail all
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by itself. And the self-contained fossil
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-executable is much less than 1MB in size.
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+executable is much less than 1MB in size. (Update 2015-01-12: Fossil has
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+grown in the years since the previous sentence was written but is still
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+must less than 2MB according to "size" when compiled using -Os on x64 Linux.)
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Fossil is the very opposite of bloat.</p>
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</blockquote>
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</nowiki>
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--- www/qandc.wiki
+++ www/qandc.wiki
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146 You do not need any other packages
147 (diff, patch, merge, cvs, svn, rcs, git, python, perl, tcl, apache,
148 sqlite, and so forth)
149 in order to run fossil. Fossil runs just fine in a chroot jail all
150 by itself. And the self-contained fossil
151 executable is much less than 1MB in size.
 
 
152 Fossil is the very opposite of bloat.</p>
153 </blockquote>
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156 </nowiki>
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--- www/qandc.wiki
+++ www/qandc.wiki
@@ -146,11 +146,13 @@
146 You do not need any other packages
147 (diff, patch, merge, cvs, svn, rcs, git, python, perl, tcl, apache,
148 sqlite, and so forth)
149 in order to run fossil. Fossil runs just fine in a chroot jail all
150 by itself. And the self-contained fossil
151 executable is much less than 1MB in size. (Update 2015-01-12: Fossil has
152 grown in the years since the previous sentence was written but is still
153 must less than 2MB according to "size" when compiled using -Os on x64 Linux.)
154 Fossil is the very opposite of bloat.</p>
155 </blockquote>
156
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158 </nowiki>
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