On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 08:53:17PM +0200, Hyrum K. Wright wrote: > How about just adding '--patch-left' and '--patch-right' or something. > The either both have to used, or neither, and if they are, use those > names as the once in the patch.
I don't like these names because it's not clear what left and right refer to. Also, why would you need to use both these options together? > If people can use the UNIX diff tool > to create left/right names they just made up, let's just let them > worry about feeding those names back into Subversion (rather than > guessing). One goal of svn patch is to facilitate application of arbitrary unidiffs. The person generating the patch may not be the same person worrying about applying the patch to a Subversion working copy. In any case, people can always edit the patch file. But having an option like this saves a bit of manual edits in the cases described. Stefan
