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diff --git a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml index 1f09caab4..8bdce2ed3 100644 --- a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml @@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ 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 1MB in size. The next version of that package +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 1MB or just as a patch file of 1KB 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> |