From 6a9875daac5d3c5dd0c3623a7a5587947bb90147 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Timothy Bauscher Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2002 15:50:25 +0000 Subject: Applied Bill Maltby's grammatic-fixes patch. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2164 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/patch-desc.xml | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/patch-desc.xml') 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 @@ patch 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. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf