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Date:      Tue, 15 Oct 1996 08:20:07 +0200
From:      Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
To:        roberto@keltia.freenix.fr (Ollivier Robert)
Cc:        mark@grondar.za (Mark Murray), freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD Bugs' list)
Subject:   Re: gnu/1787: /usr/bin/patch doesn't like Index: lines 
Message-ID:  <199610150620.IAA22587@grumble.grondar.za>

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> According to Ollivier Robert:
> WHat I don't understand is that it is supposed to be an official version of
> patch... A diff shows that it is 2.10 bmaked.

This is true.

> > apply to Index: lines? Suggestions?
> 
> Import patch-2.1 into contrib/ (without forgetting to enlarge some values
> -- max patch line length and so on).

...and fixing some bugs. The code that I fixed fixes the case where -
If you have the same file in multiple dirs, patch tries to patch the
file in the current dir multiple times. This seems to be a longstanding
bug, and fixing it to accomodate your case is not going to be trivial.

M
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