Package: dpatch Version: 2.0.16 Severity: wishlist Tags: patch As a sort of followup to #321320, I'd like the ability to tell dpatch-edit-patch not to put timestamps on patch header lines at all. They're not very useful, and as noted in the bug log for #321320, they create extra interdiff noise every time you run dpep.
The following patch creates the trivial option variable DPEP_OMIT_TIMESTAMPS which goes into effect if set (normally set in 00options). I don't know if a corresponding command line option is useful. I'll add one if you think so. As with #342768, I'll wait until you indicate that you are interested in applying this patch, before patching the manpage and adding a test. Thanks, Peter
--- orig/dpep/dpatch-edit-patch
+++ mod/dpep/dpatch-edit-patch
@@ -288,6 +288,7 @@
diff -urNad $DPEP_DIFF_EXCLUDE . "$WORKDIR/$(basename "$DPEP_SOURCEDIR")" |
sed -e "/^--- \|^diff /s: \./: $(basename "$DPEP_SOURCEDIR")~/:" \
-e "/^+++ \|^diff /s: $WORKDIR/: :" \
+ -e "/^--- \|^+++ /s:${DPEP_OMIT_TIMESTAMPS+\t[^\t]*}\$::" \
-e "/^diff /s: $DPEP_DIFF_EXCLUDE::" > "$DIFFHOLDER" || true
# Diff created, let's switch back to the original directory, and start the
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