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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 12:52:16 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py
Message-ID:  <20020418175216.GA24952@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <200204181746.g3IHkgu69548@freefall.freebsd.org>
References:  <200204181746.g3IHkgu69548@freefall.freebsd.org>

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:46:42AM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
>   * Change path directory separator character back to _.  The problem is "::"
>   is it makes patch names longer, and many shells autoexpand it to "\:\:"
>   which makes them even longer.

Shucks.  It may have been ugly, but at least e.g. foo_bar.c and
foo/bar.c would be unambiguous.

I would also really hate to see another great renaming of patch files.

IMHO there was value in doing it in one consistent, mostly unambiguous
fashion, even if it wasn't `perfect'.  `_' isn't perfect either, IMHO,
and I'd rather not change just because it is someone's pet peeve.

Cheers,
-- 
Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
NTT/Verio SME          .     FreeBSD UNIX     .       Heimdal Kerberos
jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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