Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 23:25:35 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at>, fyre@orbital.wiretapped.net Cc: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@village.org>, freebsd-standards@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: diff problem Message-ID: <p05101423b88ba5b6b1c3@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <20020209194629.A11392@chiark.greenend.org.uk> References: <20020209140259.A51448@descent.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <20020209194629.A11392@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
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At 7:46 PM +0000 2/9/02, Tony Finch wrote: >On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:02:59PM +1100, Tim Robbins wrote: >> >> I have absolutely no idea why we have both version 2.5 and version 2.1 of >> patch in the tree. 2.5 lives in /usr/src/contrib/patch, 2.1 lives in >> /usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/patch. Version 2.1 ends up in /usr/bin, version 2.5 >> is not installed anywhere I can find. > >The reason for this is that versions of `patch` after 2.1 do not correctly >handle the output of `cvs diff`. For example, on FreeBSD-4.5-STABLE, first >using `patch` 2.5 then using `patch` 2.1: The problem you demonstrate here is separate from the newline issue, and based on that example I do agree that would be much too disruptive for us to just drop in patch 2.5. But we could have our patch understand that one "\ missing newline" option in a patch. Adding that support should not break any patches which currently work. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@eclipse.acs.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-standards" in the body of the message
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