#
#
# patch "ChangeLog"
#  from [af0d4ada8b8d6e8959ec92ee57ade1a2a778a770]
#    to [94848ae5f3945356280d5279c64650cc9c8bc253]
#
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--- ChangeLog	af0d4ada8b8d6e8959ec92ee57ade1a2a778a770
+++ ChangeLog	94848ae5f3945356280d5279c64650cc9c8bc253
@@ -49,11 +49,25 @@ get()
 	| sed 's/^[^\:]\+\: //g'
 }
 
+tac_()
+{
+    # apparently freebsd doesn't come with tac, but it
+    # does have a -r flag for tail that does the same thing.
+    # but of course the tail that Debian (and presumably other
+    # linuxes) has doesn't support the -r flag
+    if which tac >/dev/null 2>&1
+    then
+	tac
+    else
+	tail -r
+    fi
+}
+
 getrevs()
 {
 	$MTN $DB automate ancestors "$1" \
 	| $MTN $DB automate toposort address@hidden \
-	| tail -n "$2" | tac
+	| tail -n "$2" | tac_
 }
 
 getlogs()