That’s like Theseus bringing in his ship for maintenance and when he returns to get it, the ship mechanic saying “so I have good news and bad news…”…

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    1 year ago

    They do have delta patching, but it’s pretty useless for some types of compressed archives. A single changed file could completely change the remainder of the archive’s contents due to different data in the compression buffer.