On Wed, 2 Mar 2005 02:41:54 +0100, Frank Heckenbach ih8mj@fjf.gnu.de wrote:
James A. Morrison wrote:
Hi,
I've posted[1] a diff between December's snapshot and February's snapshot. However, the diff 850K, that seems really large for only 4 changelog entries. Is that the size of the usual diff between patches?
It varies wildly as we don't make releases according to a fixed schedule.
In this case, an additional factor might have been that the bison generated files were no more included in the February release because a bison 2.0 had been released meanwhile (whereas previously we required a somewhat hairy alpha bison version).
Frank
parse.c and rts/autom4te.cache are both large changes, as well as some of the info documentation. I wouldn't be surprised if updating the copyright year in a large number of files also had an effect.