{"id":603,"date":"2010-03-07T23:20:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-07T13:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/?p=603"},"modified":"2010-03-08T03:07:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-07T17:07:24","slug":"redcat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/07\/redcat","title":{"rendered":"RedCat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have anything interesting to say today, so instead I&#8217;m going to link to an oldish post on my <a href=\"http:\/\/junkcode.erisian.com.au\/\">junkcode wiki<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/Junkcode\">rss feed<\/a>). Namely <a href=\"http:\/\/junkcode.erisian.com.au\/redcat\">redcat<\/a> &#8212; a program that merges ed-format diffs, so they can be applied in a single pass. That makes a big difference when dealing with anywhere more than a few small patches to a single large file, most particularly when working with apt and pdiffs. There&#8217;s no actual plans to improve apt along these lines as far as I know &#8212; at least, there wasn&#8217;t any response when I <a href=\"http:\/\/lists.debian.org\/deity\/2009\/08\/msg00169.html\">poked<\/a> the apt list some time ago &#8212; but it&#8217;s still got a couple of interesting coding techniques folks might find interesting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t have anything interesting to say today, so instead I&#8217;m going to link to an oldish post on my junkcode wiki (rss feed). Namely redcat &#8212; a program that merges ed-format diffs, so they can be applied in a single pass. That makes a big difference when dealing with anywhere more than a few [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[20],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=603"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":608,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/603\/revisions\/608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.erisian.com.au\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}