XDELTA3(1)

NAME
xdelta3 - VCDIFF (RFC 3284) binary diff tool

SYNOPSIS
xdelta3 [command] [options] [input [output]]

DESCRIPTION
xdelta3 is a binary diff tool that uses the VCDIFF (RFC 3284) format and compression.

COMMANDS

config
    prints xdelta3 configuration

decode
    decompress the input, also set by -d

encode
    compress the input, also set by -e (default)

test
    run the builtin tests

printdelta
    print information about the entire delta

printhdr
    print information about the first window

printhdrs
    print information about all windows

recode
    encode with new application/secondary settings

OPTIONS
standard options:

-0 .. -9
    compression level

-c  use stdout

-d  decompress

-e  compress

-f  force overwrite

-F  force the external-compression subprocess

-h  show help

-q  be quiet

-v  be verbose (max 2)

-V  show version

memory options:

-B  bytes source window size

-W  bytes input window size

-P  size compression duplicates window

-I  size instruction buffer size (0 = unlimited)

compression options:

-s  source source file to copy from (if any)

-S [djw|fgk]
    enable/disable secondary compression

-N  disable small string-matching compression

-D  disable external decompression (encode/decode)

-R  disable external recompression (decode)

-n  disable checksum (encode/decode)

-C  soft config (encode, undocumented)

-A [apphead]
    disable/provide application header (encode)

-J  disable output (check/compute only)

-T  use alternate code table (test)

-m  arguments for "merge"

NOTES
The XDELTA environment variable may contain extra args:
    XDELTA="-s source-x.y.tar.gz" \
    tar --use-compress-program=xdelta3 -cf \
    target-x.z.tar.gz.vcdiff target-x.y/

EXAMPLES
Compress the differences between SOURCE and TARGET, yielding OUT, using "djw" secondary compression: xdelta3 -S djw -s SOURCE TARGET OUT Do the same, using standard input and output: xdelta3 -S djw -s SOURCE < TARGET > OUT To decompress OUT, using SOURCE, yielding TARGET: xdelta3 -d -s SOURCE OUT TARGET

AUTHOR
xdelta3 was written by Josh MacDonald <josh.macdonald@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Leo 'costela' Antunes <costela@debian.org> for the Debian project (but may be used by others).