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Date:      Thu, 18 Apr 2002 21:12:10 +0300
From:      Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Jacques A. Vidrine" <nectar@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "David E. O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.ORG>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: ports/Tools/scripts patchtool.py
Message-ID:  <3CBF0C7A.D985A815@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <200204181746.g3IHkgu69548@freefall.freebsd.org> <20020418175216.GA24952@madman.nectar.cc>

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"Jacques A. Vidrine" wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 10:46:42AM -0700, David E. O'Brien wrote:
> >   * Change path directory separator character back to _.  The problem is "::"
> >   is it makes patch names longer, and many shells autoexpand it to "\:\:"
> >   which makes them even longer.
> 
> Shucks.  It may have been ugly, but at least e.g. foo_bar.c and
> foo/bar.c would be unambiguous.

The former would be expanded to patch-foo__bar.c, while the latter to
patch-foo_bar.c (note the different numbet of `_'s).

> I would also really hate to see another great renaming of patch files.
> 
> IMHO there was value in doing it in one consistent, mostly unambiguous
> fashion, even if it wasn't `perfect'.  `_' isn't perfect either, IMHO,
> and I'd rather not change just because it is someone's pet peeve.

:(

-Maxim

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