Steinar Bang wrote on Sat, May 14, 2011 at 20:37:42 +0200:
> >>>>> Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_apache.org>:
>
> > No, you should be looking for the sequence of bytes starting at offset
> > 1916. So, the bytes are:
>
> > 53564e0100008c0c823d
>
> > (for example, 'xxd -s 1916 -l 10 -ps' will tell you that)
>
> Um... how do one determine the length of the sequence? You are using 10
> bytes I guess...?
>
No, I wasn't using "10" bytes, I was using an arbitrary number of bytes.
"10" is not a magic number in this context.
> Anyway, the sequence you are showing about, starting at 1916 is the only
> one in the file, both when searching forward and backwards, in ghex.
>
> > And please don't try searching for the text representation on the
> > right hand side of the hex view! (You've been here long enough that I
> > assume you know that, but you said 'search for "ENDREP.DELTA.SVN"',
> > which is incorrect in so many ways...)
>
> Yes, I was just trying my way around hexl-mode, and it proved to have
> too limited search capabilities. And I was also hoping that there would
> be human readable strings that could be used to identify the contents.
>
The thing starting with bytes 0x53564e01 is an svndiff1 stream ---
a zlib-compressed binary delta. (Those four bytes are three magic bytes
and one format-number byte.) It's probably the least human-readable
part in Subversion...
> Re: 2247
>
> >> I tried searching for "x^.Rmo.@", but the one at the cursor is the only
> >> occurrence in the file. At least the only aligned so that search will
> >> find it. Doesn't look like hexl-mode has the possibility to search for
> >> a byte sequence. Maybe I should get myself a proper hex editor?
>
> I installed ghex, and there I've searched for "78 5E 1D 52 6D 6F DA",
> and there is only one occurrence of that strng in the file.
Hmm. I'm assuming Stefan will have a look, but if for some reason he
doesn't then I'll have a look at your original mail and see if
I mis-advised you regarding what duplication to look for.
Received on 2011-05-14 21:06:14 CEST