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Date:      Sat, 18 Nov 1995 17:18:12 -0500
From:      "Garrett A. Wollman" <wollman@lcs.mit.edu>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/pci if_de.c
Message-ID:  <9511182218.AA32059@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.951118064825.9154A-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>
References:  <199511172220.JAA25889@godzilla.zeta.org.au> <Pine.BSF.3.91.951118064825.9154A-100000@jhome.DIALix.COM>

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<<On Sat, 18 Nov 1995 07:04:48 +0800 (WST), Peter Wemm <peter@jhome.DIALix.COM> said:

> I think if we're going to distribute "patches", then we can't go past CTM 
> for safety.  You can guarantee that it will apply in it's entireity or 
> not at all... 

Unfortunately, this highlights a fundamental brokenness of CTM for
distributing this sort of material: if the user has changed the file,
the delta won't apply, even if the patch is to a different part of the
file and therefore applies cleanly.  Not Good.

-GAWollman

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