From b822811980a5f82726cb641cbeff66be9eb6d92a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mark Hymers Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 19:45:10 +0000 Subject: XML changes git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@827 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- appendixa/patch-desc.xml | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) (limited to 'appendixa/patch-desc.xml') diff --git a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml index c59f6b836..729a52acb 100644 --- a/appendixa/patch-desc.xml +++ b/appendixa/patch-desc.xml @@ -1,16 +1,13 @@ Contents - -The Patch package contains the patch program. - +The Patch package contains the patch program. Description - -The patch program modifies a file according to a patch file. A 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 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 @@ -19,8 +16,7 @@ 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 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. - +a second large download. -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf