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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 14:36:05 -0500
From:      "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py
Message-ID:  <20020418193605.GC25519@madman.nectar.cc>
In-Reply-To: <20020418121111.A97619@dragon.nuxi.com>
References:  <200204181746.g3IHkgu69548@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020418175216.GA24952@madman.nectar.cc> <20020418105426.A91050@dragon.nuxi.com> <20020418175903.GA25057@madman.nectar.cc> <20020418121111.A97619@dragon.nuxi.com>

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On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:11:11PM -0700, David O'Brien wrote:
> No that is not the only reason -- did you even read the emails following
> up to this commit?  The other was that / -> ::, which causes even longer
> names that the orginial path.   

Why is this such a big deal?

(quick calculations on the ports repository)

On average this increases the patch filename by 1.68 characters (only
counting patch files that actually have `::' in them.)
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Jacques A. Vidrine <n@nectar.cc>                 http://www.nectar.cc/
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jvidrine@verio.net     .  nectar@FreeBSD.org  .          nectar@kth.se

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