2005/10/28, Alfred M. Szmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > At least in the communities I'm a part of, -p1 seems to basically > be the standard these days. > > Interesting, on my side it is standard to use -p0, I only see patches > with one meta-level (-p1) very rarely. But that might be because I > tend to work on CVS projects, where the standard way to make a diff is > `cvs diff -u' which defaults to the top-level (which generates patches > with no meta-level).
The useful thing about a meta-level is that it provides some context for the names -- e.g., in a patch-file I made today: --- gcc-3.4.4/gcc/reload1.c 2005-03-18 06:11:35.000000000 +0900 +++ gcc-3.4.4-supk0-20051028/gcc/reload1.c 2005-10-28 20:32:40.695594000 +0900 As I'm careful to always use meaningful tags, that tells me exactly what was diffed, and does so in an in-band manner that is unlikely to get lost (e.g., by patch-munging programs) or overlooked. -miles -- Do not taunt Happy Fun Ball. _______________________________________________ Gnu-arch-users mailing list Gnu-arch-users@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-arch-users GNU arch home page: http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnu-arch/
