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Date:      Tue, 06 Jan 2004 11:19:30 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>
To:        a clever sheep <aard@perilith.com>
Cc:        Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net>
Subject:   Re: Personal patches (actually about patches this time)
Message-ID:  <200401060119.i061JUAL005461@dungeon.home>
In-Reply-To: <20040105200123.GA16165@mavra.perilith.com> from a clever sheep at "Mon, 05 Jan 2004 14:01:23 -0600"
References:  <200401020525.i025PM2W004726@dungeon.home> <20040102053610.GP78263@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3FF93422.2050006@emailrob.com> <200401051502.i05F2qqG007611@dungeon.home> <20040105200123.GA16165@mavra.perilith.com>

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On Monday, 5th January 2004, a clever sheep wrote:

>and now for something completely different (and non-political)...
>
>how many of these personal patches do you have?  i have a few things
>myself but i don't know how much value there is in them.  would it be an
>advantage to have a community site with something similiar to (please
>don't cringe, i'm about to say wiki) a wiki where we could exchange
>these scripts?  i can see a lot of value in freebsd patches that aren't
>'mainstream' enough for the main tree but would still be valuable.

Most of my personal patches are just that: personal.  Of the lot, the
only one I can think of that others might find useful is the patch to
add a flag (-0) to "find" to make the default action -print0 not -print,
so you can more easily plug it into xargs -0.  I'll submit that one in
a PR sometime.

Stephen.



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