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Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:36:05 -0500
From: "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py
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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:11:11PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> No that is not the only reason -- did you even read the emails following
> up to this commit?  The other was that / -> ::, which causes even longer
> names that the orginial path.   

Why is this such a big deal?

(quick calculations on the ports repository)

On average this increases the patch filename by 1.68 characters (only
counting patch files that actually have `::' in them.)
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