Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2017 19:14:56 +0000 From: Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe@FreeBSD.org> To: Pedro Giffuni <pfg@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cem@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r320579 - head/usr.bin/patch Message-ID: <20170703191456.GB99316@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <c12abd44-777e-809b-d2c3-180a073f2a11@FreeBSD.org> References: <201707022100.v62L0Ume001253@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpW4DYOzyacfEVQq%2B1WBGd1KO0m79zqJbGYPAyb6zS_5TQ@mail.gmail.com> <ad1564e9-fa9a-1006-59dd-7ecee305a04d@FreeBSD.org> <20170703181727.GA99316@FreeBSD.org> <c12abd44-777e-809b-d2c3-180a073f2a11@FreeBSD.org>
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On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > On 7/3/2017 1:17 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:42:15AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote: > >> On 07/02/17 21:53, Conrad Meyer wrote: > >>> Does this change the behavior of 'patch -p1' (for example) with 'git > >>> diff' generated diffs? So patches that could be applied with -p1 > >>> before now need to be applied with -p0? Or is this a different mode > >>> of patch? > >> > >> IMHO, the (new) BSD patch behavior is somewhat more natural in the sense > >> that no one asked git to add a prefix to the path so it makes sense to > >> ignore it. > > > > But -p1 already solves the problem; why add any ad-hoc handling to some > > particular program that tends to generate patches whatever the way it > > does? > > The behavior only applies to git diffs. But -p1 already solves the problem in a generic way. What good is to add specific code to make it git-or-next-cool-kid-on-the-block-aware? ./danfe
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