On Thursday 12 April 2012 21:25:40 Andreas Grünbacher wrote: > > Before the next release, I want to complete the git diff format > > support, and this requires fixing bug 31058. > > An initial version with full git-style patch support can be found on > the testing branch. > A snapshot can be found here: > > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.6.1.163-30ef-testing.tar.gz > > Please give this a try. Bug reports are particularly welcome right now.
seems to barf on semi-mangled git patches. patch-2.6.1 runs fine. $ patch -p1 -g0 -E --no-backup-if-mismatch < 0068_all_glibc-2.14-glibc-revert- fseek-on-fclose.patch patching file libio/Makefile patching file libio/bug-fclose1.c Git-style patch file contains a normal patch between line 182 and 186 patch program exited with status 2 you can find it here: http://sources.gentoo.org/gentoo/src/patchsets/glibc/2.15/0068_all_glibc-2.14- glibc-revert-fseek-on-fclose.patch i've got quite a number of patches that i extracted from git and then had to hand modify in order to make them apply to older versions ... -mike
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