Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 16:10:44 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: CVS-commiters@freefall.freebsd.org, cvs-gnu@freefall.freebsd.org, gibbs@freefall.freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/gnu/usr.bin/patch pch.c Message-ID: <199509140610.QAA12138@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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> Modified: gnu/usr.bin/patch pch.c > Log: > Give "Index" specified filenames preference over other filenames specified > in the diff. This makes it so that diffs containing files in different > subdirectories that have the same name not patch the same file. For example > a diff with patches to Makefile, des/Makefile, usr.bin/Makefile would attempt > to patch Makefile three times. This will be useful. I've been avoiding `cvs diff' for preparing bunches of patches to commit for so long that I had forgotten about this problem. Why has patch done the wrong thing here for so long? Perhaps because only cvs doesn't put enough context in the filenames in the diff? :-) Bruce
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