After another improvement in git-style diff support to better handle concatenated diffs, here is a last call for testing to ensure that the code works well enough to become the next stable release. Please find the latest development snapshots here: ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/ The following significant changes have happened since the last stable release in December 2009: * Support for most features of the "diff --git" format, including renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs. Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them. * Support for double-quoted filenames in the "diff --git" format: when a filename starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are recognized. * Patch now ignores destination file names that are absolute or that contain a component of "..". This addresses CVE-2010-4651. * Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous versions of patch were replacing the symlink with a regular file.) * When trying to modify a read-only file, warn about the potential problem by default. The --read-only command line option allows to change this behavior. * Files that should be deleted are now deleted once the entire patch file has been read. This fixes a bug with numbered backup files. * When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of assuming the local time zone (--set-date) or Universal Coordinated Time (--set-utc). * Support for nanosecond precision timestamps. * Many portability and bug fixes. Please report bugs or suggestions on the <bug-patch@xxxxxxx> mailing list, or in the project's bug tracker on Savannah: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch Thanks, Andreas -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html