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From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
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On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 07:03:02AM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 11:00:40AM +0000, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
> > 
> > A patch not tagged by a version control system surely  rots very quickly,
> > as noone except the submitter knows the exact state of the source tree it
> > is made against, especially if the tree is also not under a revision
> > control system.
> > And surely the submitter's memory is not perfect, either.
> 
> The patch is against trunk on the day it was submitted.
> The patch was created under the officical revision control
> system used by FreeBSD.
> 

Hmmm.  Just looked at the patch in bugzilla.  The top
four lines are

Index: include/complex.h
===================================================================
--- include/complex.h	(revision 313777)
+++ include/complex.h	(working copy)

So, the patchs tagged with the revision number.

HTH

-- 
Steve