On 1/8/11 2:43 PM, David Chanters wrote:
Would the presense of the other meta-data, such as the "diff --git" line as well as the "Index" line cause any problems when applying this patch in CVS (I suppose now, my question doesn't have to apply to CVS
I don't know, you tell me. I've never used CVS.
at all, more likely it will apply to any file sets)? I am not sure how GNU Patch uses this meta information, and I assume "git diff" adds it for a good reason.
gnu patch most likely doesn't use the index line and ignores all the git specific additions to the diff format.
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