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Binary Diff ?
Seems so stupid to have to upload a whole file when using the API even if 1 byte has changed. Are you able to offer a way of updating a certain block so we as developers can do the binary diff ou...
- Thanks for the post! The Dropbox API doesn't currently offer this, but we'll consider it a feature request. I can't promise if or when that would be implemented and released though.
Thank you very much, Greg.
I would like to add the following note:
There is a trivial case of the binary diff, which is the case of files that are only appended to. A use case are log files, another is a project I have in mind, and I'm sure that there are others. If engineers at Dropbox are afraid of handing over the binary diff algorithm to developers, they should keep in mind that just giving them the opportunity to specify what has been APPENDED to a file could make many people happy, including me ;-)
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox Staffwaltertross Thanks for the note!
Greg-DB hello, any news on this?
- Greg-DB
waltertross No, unfortunately I don't have any news on this.
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