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

Hugh Sasse <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Jan 2011 19:33:36 +0000 (GMT)
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Thank you for that correction.  
        Hugh

On Fri, 14 Jan 2011, Paul Eggert wrote:

> 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.
>