Re: Identical files across subsequent package revisions

[Jonathan Brielmaier]

On 23.12.20 23:06, Mark H Weaver wrote:
> Hi Taylan,
>
> Taylan Kammer <taylan.kammer@gmail.com> writes:
> > My second thought: it's surprising that IceCat supposedly changes so
> > much between releases.  I suppose the reason is that this analysis is on
> > a per-file basis, and IceCat is mostly a massive binary.
>
> FYI, here's the reason that IceCat is unusual among the projects sampled
> in Ludovic's analysis: the large collection of JavaScript source files
> and other auxiliary files, which are mostly unchanged from one release
> to the next, are bundled into a single zip file in lib/icecat/omni.ja.

And even more most of the changed files differ only via the different
hash in the output path. So the actual diff is a few hundred lines of
almost the same -> should get compressed very good...