Re: [Gnu-arch-users] a decent-gnupatch detector (was: unsigned to signed archive conversion causing trouble?)

[Jan Hudec]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 12:40:30 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:
> According to Jan Hudec:
> > the end. IIRC FreeBSD uses original Lary Wall's patch, which does handle
> > unified patches, except for the no-newline directive. Standart unix
> 
> The FreeBSD patch has been patched (:)) to deal with that a while ago,
> before 4.6.
> 
> revision 1.18
> date: 2002/04/26 19:01:19;  author: gad;  state: Exp;  lines: +65 -1
> Modify our 'patch' utility to recognize the
>    \ No newline at end of file
> line that some versions of diff print out if the last line of the two files
> are different, and one of the two files does not have a newline character
> on that last line.

That is a good news. However, since a patch that recognize unified
format, but not this line, ever existed, the feature should be tested.

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