[Box Backup-dev] changeset [819]

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Ben,

On Thu, 31 Aug 2006, Ben Summers wrote:

> I don't remember writing any 'recombinetemp' things or using the horrid 
> << notation. What exactly is this for?

You're looking at my patch which adds support for win32. The original code 
does use recombinetemp but not <<, because it doesn't need to convert ints 
to strings, which I do (to make unique filenames for each step).

As far as I understand, this is the code to produce older versions of 
store files on demand by applying successive patches (reverse diffs) to 
the latest version. But I'm not 100% sure, I didn't analyse it in detail, 
I only fixed it to work on Win32 :-)

Cheers, Chris.
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