Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 09:17:35 -0500 From: "Brian F. Feldman" <green@FreeBSD.ORG> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> Cc: roberto@keltia.freenix.fr, arch@FreeBSD.ORG, rooneg@electricjellyfish.net Subject: Re: Diffutils Message-ID: <200203221417.g2MEHZ958962@green.bikeshed.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Mar 2002 06:37:51 MST." <20020322.063751.68160149.imp@village.org>
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"M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org> wrote: > In message: <20020322063236.GA19699@tara.freenix.org> > Ollivier Robert <roberto@keltia.freenix.fr> writes: > : 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... > > The patch that we have in the tree is 2.1 and doesn't grok the missing > end of line stuff. The 2.5 that we also have in the tree doesn't work > with cvs diffs :-(. Our patch 2.1 is also broken on certain "large" patches I've encountered (extremely long lines, for example, seemed to be one issue). Our patch is also a lot more verbose than patch 2.5. So, just for the record, there are more than a couple small differences... -- Brian Fundakowski Feldman \'[ FreeBSD ]''''''''''\ <> green@FreeBSD.org <> bfeldman@tislabs.com \ The Power to Serve! \ Opinions expressed are my own. \,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,\ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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