On Tue, Dec 21, 2021 at 09:43:27AM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Jason McIntyre wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 04:13:19PM +:
>
> > i'm ok with your diff
>
> Thanks for checking.
>
> > but it is slightly misleading in context of
> > reading from stdin. i suppose that is no biggie.
>
> I think
Hi Theo,
Theo de Raadt wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 10:37:00AM -0700:
> Ingo Schwarze wrote:
>> The patch(1) manual talks about "lines" throughout,
>> and for binary files, a concept of "lines" does not even exist.
> That is a bit strong. Some utilities designed for "text files" have no
> pro
Jason McIntyre wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 04:13:19PM +:
> i'm ok with your diff
Thanks for checking.
> but it is slightly misleading in context of
> reading from stdin. i suppose that is no biggie.
I think i see why you say so.
Speaking *formally*, what we usually do is describing what
Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> The patch(1) manual talks about "lines" throughout,
> and for binary files, a concept of "lines" does not even exist.
That is a bit strong. Some utilities designed for "text files" have no
problem being both 8-bit clean and very-long-line capable. For example,
you can us
On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 04:45:58PM +0100, Ingo Schwarze wrote:
> Hi Christopher,
>
> Christopher Zimmermann wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 04:01:49PM +0100:
>
> > base patch cannot work with diffs of binary files. It might help to say
> > so in the manpage since other implementations do support t
Hi Christopher,
Christopher Zimmermann wrote on Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 04:01:49PM +0100:
> base patch cannot work with diffs of binary files. It might help to say
> so in the manpage since other implementations do support this (ab)use of
> patch. OK?
I agree you are pointing out a slight problem
Hi,
base patch cannot work with diffs of binary files. It might help to say
so in the manpage since other implementations do support this (ab)use of
patch. OK?
Christopher
Index: patch.1
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RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/patch/pa
