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| author | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-10-06 15:50:25 +0000 |
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| committer | Timothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-10-06 15:50:25 +0000 |
| commit | 6a9875daac5d3c5dd0c3623a7a5587947bb90147 (patch) | |
| tree | a1229c1f27aa707d0c08bf9643c091280f052d16 /appendixa/patch-desc.xml | |
| parent | 6b8e9e97de1965df7a820d90943385f2e06696d6 (diff) | |
Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch.
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2164 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'appendixa/patch-desc.xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | appendixa/patch-desc.xml | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml index 7bb3dec97..303ebb9f7 100644 --- a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml @@ -9,12 +9,12 @@ <sect4><title>patch</title> <para>The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A patch -file usually is a list created by the diff program that contains +file usually is a list, created by the diff program, that contains instructions on how an original file needs to be modified. Patch is used a lot for source code patches since it saves time and space. Imagine a package that is 1 MB in size. The next version of that package only has changes in two files of the first version. It can be shipped as an -entirely new package of 1 MB or just as a patch file of 1 KB which will +entirely new package of 1 MB or just as a patch file of 1 KB, which will update the first version to make it identical to the second version. So if the first version was downloaded already, a patch file avoids a second large download.</para></sect4> |