Re: patch and CVS

[Hans-Bernhard Broeker]

Carlo Wood <address@hidden> wrote:
> Diffs generated by 'cvs diff' are unuable with patch, and have been
> for many years.  Why is this never fixed?  

Unless I remember my own experience incorrectly, it already is fixed.
For a long while, actually.  It's called the '-p' option of patch.
"cvs diff" output usually needs "patch -p0".  It's the change in
default status of -p, going from "-p0" to "-p infinity" to suit POSIX,
which broke this particular usage of patch. Not CVS.
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