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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ +This is a fork of Colin Percival's +[bsdiff suite](http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/) version 4.3, +with a couple other features: + +- Contains all the various distro patches I can find. +- Portability via [oconfigure](https://github.com/kristapsdz/oconfigure). +- [pledge(2)](https://man.openbsd.org/pledge.2) and [unveil(2)](https://man.openbsd.org/unveil.2) support. +- Slightly cleaned up source code. + +## Other Forks + +[Upstream FreeBSD](https://github.com/freebsd/freebsd/tree/master/usr.bin/bsdiff/bsdiff). +The current mainline. Continues to be developed c. 2017. +Notably the suffix sorting algorithm was changed to +[divsufsort](https://github.com/y-256/libdivsufsort). + +[mendsley/bsdiff](https://github.com/mendsley/bsdiff). +Based on the 4.3 release. Refactored to be compiled as a library.