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Date:      Mon, 3 Jul 2017 19:13:39 +0200
From:      Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@bec.de>
To:        svn-src-all@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r320579 - head/usr.bin/patch
Message-ID:  <20170703171339.GA6195@britannica.bec.de>
In-Reply-To: <ad1564e9-fa9a-1006-59dd-7ecee305a04d@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <201707022100.v62L0Ume001253@repo.freebsd.org> <CAG6CVpW4DYOzyacfEVQq%2B1WBGd1KO0m79zqJbGYPAyb6zS_5TQ@mail.gmail.com> <ad1564e9-fa9a-1006-59dd-7ecee305a04d@FreeBSD.org>

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On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:42:15AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> 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. Recent GNU patch does support many git-specific features that we
> don't.

I quite disagree. git patches (just like hg in this regard) are stupid,
they can just drop the additional directories and it wouldn't change
anything.

Joerg


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