asciilifeform: and here's a thought:

asciilifeform: 140 uniques?

asciilifeform: ^ obligatory

asciilifeform: http://pastebin.com/rG1TxJt2

asciilifeform: consisting of unprintable chars!

asciilifeform: with one of them 2MB?!!!

asciilifeform: !s spittoon

asciilifeform: why not own os, own cpu, ahaha.

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: aha now we've got our own diff...?

asciilifeform: mircea_popescu: re: article: 'the hunchback will straighten in the grave.'

asciilifeform eagerly awaits suggestions for quandary posted earlier.

asciilifeform: because png fucktardation

asciilifeform: i'm getting 2MB !

asciilifeform: and it ought to be about 1kb long.

asciilifeform: jurov: i want a single 'nixed qt' diff, for example.

asciilifeform: meaning, we may as well be asking folks to run arbitrary binary turd that mr. sp4mz0r built in his cellar, for winblows 98.

asciilifeform: meaning, does not fit in head.

asciilifeform: of weight.

asciilifeform: if we have a meg of extraneous turd in a diff, then we're in 'infinity' in the one, two, three, infinity hierarchy of being.

asciilifeform: short as in - not much more than levenshtein distance between the trees.

asciilifeform: as in, actually read.

asciilifeform: that you, i, mircea_popescu, putin, whoever, can read.

asciilifeform: try to appreciate how i got here. i want --short-- diffs.

asciilifeform: what do the diffs end up looking like?

asciilifeform: ...and?

asciilifeform: 'don't commit binaries' - where do people keep bitmaps? up their arses?

asciilifeform is floored by the stink of the turd he's stepped in

asciilifeform beats hare, teaches it to light matches.

asciilifeform: ehehe.

asciilifeform: no complaints whatsoever, that i was able to find, about deleting bins.

asciilifeform: don't believe? search the net.

asciilifeform: incidentally, there's a larger lesson here. folks have been using 'version control' gizmos for so long, that approximately no one even notices that 'diff' is broken.

asciilifeform: until someone suggests alternative.

asciilifeform: 'flush_turds.sh' it is.

asciilifeform: on their own hides.

asciilifeform: i want people to see what i spoke of when said 'cannot polish turd'

asciilifeform: did not expect easy. in fact, undertook this exercise partly from ulterior motive to demonstrate the sheer amount of braindamage.

asciilifeform: pedigree.

asciilifeform: or no sane man with skin in the game will use it.

asciilifeform: no manual monkey business, nothing specified 'in human language' other than 'run this like so.'

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes, mircea_popescu, others: you must appreciate why this is necessary. it is direly important. our patch set must start with a known, traditional tree, and end with the end product.

asciilifeform: thought so.

asciilifeform: but seems like posix diff is actually retarded, and cannot operate on file system basis at all, but only by lines!

asciilifeform: not by magic

asciilifeform: want to delete turd by path.

asciilifeform: without having to specify the contents!

asciilifeform: or random, whatever

asciilifeform: */dev/zero

asciilifeform: try it with just a dir with a turd from /dev/null in it.

asciilifeform: in such a way that 'patch' applies it.

asciilifeform: just want to remove a dir with binaries, and have the resulting diff file reflect this fact

asciilifeform: but it doesn't matter specifically

asciilifeform: sha256 == aab1f8ea8c7f131ff69dfa3b9437ba35531018be760132dd6373f41a591f6382

asciilifeform: https://codeload.github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/legacy.tar.gz/v0.5.3

asciilifeform: yes.

asciilifeform: if this is not possible, unix patch is retarded.

asciilifeform: using unix patch, fuckit

asciilifeform: i want a 100 percent mechanical a->b.

asciilifeform: and who will agree to run them?

asciilifeform: i mean wtf, do i have to distribute perl scripts instead of diffs?

asciilifeform: or rather, its contents

asciilifeform: without having to specify it

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes: i just want the cursed thing gone

asciilifeform: no good.

asciilifeform: diff -uNr does not zap these

asciilifeform: which contains png turdlets

asciilifeform: trying to include a zap for the entire qt dir

asciilifeform: ?

asciilifeform: because not only i, but anyone who'd agree to do this in my place, will need this answer.

asciilifeform: no one knows answer?

asciilifeform: ben_vulpes; yes

asciilifeform: without crapping in the output

asciilifeform: who can remember how to force 'diff' to create patch that removes binary files?

asciilifeform: for programmer - after.

asciilifeform: precisely.

asciilifeform: and i'll show you a coprophagiac.

asciilifeform: show me the programmer who's passed anal stage

asciilifeform: cpp code is what, exactly, if not excrement

asciilifeform: passed like a bottle

asciilifeform: signed by, well, people

asciilifeform: just a bag of shit passed round'nround

asciilifeform: i'm not even convinced this needs hosting

asciilifeform: budget for what? coffee?

asciilifeform: wai wat budget ?

asciilifeform cocks blaster, prepares to zap crud

asciilifeform: but - i do so hate the sea of ifdefs.

asciilifeform: mike_c: isolated << if you want to write this, and sign it, who am i to say you oughtn't.

asciilifeform: mike_c: aha and now you'll be up to your knees in microshit

asciilifeform: want raw block device access for weaning the thing off bdb? tough

asciilifeform: e.g., wanna use your custom '/dev/random'? tough

asciilifeform: beyond mere weight

asciilifeform: thing is, portability to winblows has costs.

asciilifeform: secure winblows lol

asciilifeform: but - i won't. and i can't picture who will.

asciilifeform: no reason why someone suicidally willing to take responsibility for the inevitable, can't add winblows support

asciilifeform: just preventing him (or rather, his chumpmeister) from fucking us

asciilifeform: thing is, we're not fucking the noob

asciilifeform: it confuses me also.

asciilifeform: people constantly ask for functionality that is quite equivalent to chewing food.

asciilifeform: ;;google when computers were human