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From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>
To: Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
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Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr>
>According to M. Warner Losh:
>> I have talked with green about this.  He'd like me to fix patch to
>> grok the generated diffs first.
>
>Why?  Do we also have a modified patch?  The original GNU patch with the
>original GNU diffutils work fine so what's there to fix?
>I'm confused. I seem to recall that at one point we went to patch 2.5 then
>back but that's about it...

FreeBSD is still using patch-2.1 because more recent versions of patch
don't understand the output of `cvs diff` -- they fail to find the
right file to patch if it is in a subdirectory. As far as I can see
there have been no significant changes to the source.

Tony.

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