Re: [Monotone-devel] Time for a release

[Zack Weinberg]

On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Thomas Keller <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> So, what should we do here? The addition of -E for all other unices
> would mean that we'd tamper the test.

I distinctly remember having to add -E on SunOS, and I would not be at
all surprised if, well, anyone else who doesn't use GNU patch had the
same behavior.

Therefore I think we should unconditionally add -E.

> (change a test diff to use /dev/nul instead of
> /dev/nul, f.e., to see the effect - the file is no longer removed on
> "compliant" systems).

I assume you meant "/dev/nul instead of /dev/null" there?

By the way, standard English is "e.g." not "f.e."  It expands to
"exempli gratia".  Yes, that's Latin.  I blame the French.

zw