Re: ci failed for large files (>2GB) - diff: memory exhausted

Paul Eggert <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 10:44:39 -0800

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gnu.rcs
Organization	UCLA Computer Science Department
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On 01/13/11 11:14, Hugh Sasse wrote:
> I am pretty sure that RCS does not
> support binary files.

That's incorrect.  RCS has supported binary files for
many, many years.  It may not compress them as
well as newer systems do, but that's a different matter.
All that you need is a 'diff' that supports binary files,
which GNU diff does.