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From: Charles Forsyth <forsyth@terzarima.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2008 13:33:09 +0000
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Changelogs & Patches?
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>the advantage of dump and snap is that the scope is the whole system: including emails, discussion documents,
>the code, supporting tools -- everything in digital form.  if software works differently today
>compared to yesterday, then

sorry, got cut off.   then in most cases, i'd expect 9fs dump to make it easy to track down the
set of differences, and narrow the search to the culprit. it might not even be a source change,
but a configuration file, or a file was moved or removed.