Questions tagged [binary-diff]

I'm looking for a native library or perhaps relatively simple algorithm to create and apply binary patches for files up to 1GB in size. These are binary database exports and unfortunately there's no other way to get only the changes. The patches…

I am reading source code of mercurial,but what I saw in bdiff.c and mdiff.py is processing text, not binary.but they said mercurial treat all files as binary.I am confused.

There is a lot of information about binary diff algorithms for pretty big files (1MB+). However, my use case is different. This is why it is not a duplicate. I have a collection of many objects, each in 5-100 byte range. I want to send updates on…