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CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Subject: Re: Bizarre patch behaviour
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Hello.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
[ Snipped bit about adding warning about number of slashes to ]
[ diffutils info pages.                                       ]
> Sure.  Feel free to suggest this to Paul Eggert, the maintainer of
> Diffutils and Patch (although I imagine that he knows).

It's been fixed in diffutils 2.7.2. I'm still using the diffutils 2.7.1
port.

> It can't, in general.  If it did, the following wouldn't DTRT:
> 
>           diff -c foo.c~ foo.c > foo.dif
>           patch -p0 < foo.dif
> 
> This example is very frequently seen, and the second file name is the
> one you want Patch to pick up in such cases.

Thanks for your explanations of how patch works - elucidating, as ever. ;)

Bye,

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Richard Dawe
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