On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 01:49:49PM +0200, Flavio Poletti wrote: > Thanks for the feedback! I wonder if this feature of patch "ignoring" > stuff it doesn't understand is a GNU feature or a POSIX feature, but I'm > abusing your patience here. (Incidentally, I also saw that POSIX has no > "unified" format, but this "ignoring" feature might apply in a wider > sense). As you say, POSIX does not specify unified diffs at all. I'm not sure if patch's policy is as relaxed for other formats and I didn't find any mention of this relaxed policy in the SUS spec, but unified diffs with extraneous information intertwined are extremely widespread; about any VCSes out there append extra information to the diffs. Incidentally, does anyone actually know about _any_ other patch tool in the wild that is _not_ based on the original Larry Wall's patch? -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis The last good thing written in C++ was the Pachelbel Canon. -- J. Olson -- 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
