strange incremental patch size [2.6.12-rc2 to 2.6.12-rc3]

[Maciej Soltysiak]

Hi,

These are the sizes of rc2 and rc3 patches

# ls -la patch-2.6.12*
-rw-r--r--  1 root src 18011382 Apr  4 18:50 patch-2.6.12-rc2
-rw-r--r--  1 root src 19979854 Apr 21 02:29 patch-2.6.12-rc3

Let us make an incremental patch from rc2 to rc3

# interdiff patch-2.6.12-rc2 patch-2.6.12-rc3 >x

Let us see how big it is.
# ls -ld x
-rw-r--r--  1 root src 37421924 Apr 21 12:28 x

How come interdiff from rc2 (18MB) to rc3 (20MB) gave me
37MB worth of patch-code ? I would expect something about
2MB but 40MB ?

The patching with the incremental patch took very long compared
to other rc2-rc3-type patches, that is how I noticed it.

Regards,
Maciej


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