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> Of course, how it does that is a mystery to me - without=20
> fully comparing both versions, how can it create a diff? I=20
> guess that's what made it PhD material...

IIRC, it does a chunk by chunk md5 checksum on each file and transfers
only the differing chunks.
Quite clever indeed.