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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org,
        gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org
Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/patch pch.c
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>  Modified:    gnu/usr.bin/patch  pch.c
>  Log:
>  Give "Index" specified filenames preference over other filenames specified
>  in the diff.  This makes it so that diffs containing files in different
>  subdirectories that have the same name not patch the same file.  For example
>  a diff with patches to Makefile, des/Makefile, usr.bin/Makefile would attempt
>  to patch Makefile three times.

This will be useful.  I've been avoiding `cvs diff' for preparing
bunches of patches to commit for so long that I had forgotten about this
problem.  Why has patch done the wrong thing here for so long?  Perhaps
because only cvs doesn't put enough context in the filenames in the
diff?  :-)

Bruce