Bash patches format

[Matt Housh]

On 5/30/2018 02:04, Marty E. Plummer wrote:
> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 10:42:27AM +0800, Clark Wang wrote:
>> On Wed, May 30, 2018 at 8:25 AM, Marty E. Plummer <hanetzer at startmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>>> If people are willing to do the conversion between patch formats for
>>> their
>>>> own purposes, more power to them. I don't see any compelling reason to
>>>> change the format I use.
>>>>
>>> Could I at least convince you to start doing -p1, if not unified?
>>>
>>
>> I think the cost is too high. All bash package maintainers on different
>> *nix systems will have to change accordingly.
>>
>> -clark
> Well how about this; we ask the downstreams. List taken from repology,
> hopefully these are still all active and accurate. So, to reiterate the
> original premise of this thread for the newly added, I suggest the
> following:
> 
> 1. Change the official upstream bash patch format to be -p1 applicable,
> as a number of major linux distros either convert the patches in their
> own source repo to -p1 (debian and its children, fedora and its children),
> or have to take an explicit deviation from their default patch
> application method (gentoo) in order to apply -p0 patches.
> 
> Optional:
> 2. Change the format of the patch from a context diff to a unified diff,
> for the following reasons:
>     a. unified diffs are generally smaller than an equivalent context
>     diff, while encoding the same information.
>     *** a/lib/readline/history.c    2015-12-28 13:50:31.000000000 -0500
>     --- b/lib/readline/history.c    2016-09-30 14:28:40.000000000 -0400
>     ***************
>     *** 308,312 ****
>     	{
>     	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
>     !           history_size = history_max_entries + 2;
>     	  else
>     	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
>     --- 310,316 ----
>     	{
>     	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
>     !           history_size = (history_max_entries > MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE)
>     !                               ? MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE
>     !                               : history_max_entries + 2;
>     	  else
>     	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
> 
>     --- a/lib/readline/history.c    2015-12-28 13:50:31.000000000 -0500
>     +++ b/lib/readline/history.c    2016-09-30 14:28:40.000000000 -0400
>     @@ -308,5 +310,7 @@
>     	{
>     	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
>     -           history_size = history_max_entries + 2;
>     +           history_size = (history_max_entries > MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE)
>     +                               ? MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE
>     +                               : history_max_entries + 2;
>     	  else
>     	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
> 
>     b. <opinion> unified diffs are easier to size up at a glance than
>     context diffs.
> 
>     c. <conjecture based on personal observation> unified diffs are the
>     standard for a host of foss projects, especially those using git as a
>     vcs solution as it produces context diffs by default and you have to
>     purposely change it to do otherwise.
> 
> Maintainers, I'd really like to hear your thoughts on this matter. If
> the diffs are produced as -p1 unified diffs, then downstreams who do
> convert from -p0 context won't have to, and distros who work around it
> won't either.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marty
> 

Greetings,

Speaking for the CRUX maintainers, we don't have a preference. Whatever
works best for upstream.

Regards,
Matt
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