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Date:      Fri, 15 Mar 2019 07:16:32 +0000
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        rgrimes@freebsd.org, "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r345138 - head/share/man/man9
Message-ID:  <3317.1552634192@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: <201903150152.x2F1q34w027789@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201903150152.x2F1q34w027789@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>

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In message <201903150152.x2F1q34w027789@gndrsh.dnsmgr.net>, "Rodney W. Gri=
mes" =

writes:

>> The first versions of CTM used diff -e and ed(1) to transmit changes,
>> and that choked up on binary files.  We didn't have patch in the
>> tree back then.

>patch has always been in the tree.
>https://github.com/sergev/4.4BSD-Lite2/tree/master/usr/src/usr.bin/patch

Yes, in *that* tree, but it was not always in *our* tree, particularly
not in the strange time between 1.1.5.1 and 2.0.

Trust me: if it had been, I would not have used diff-e+ed(1)


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