Bash patches format

Christian Weisgerber naddy at mips.inka.de
Wed May 30 14:59:15 UTC 2018


Marty E. Plummer:

> 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.

Speaking in my capacity as the OpenBSD packager for bash, either
way is fine.  We use the upstream patches as provided ("distribution
patches").  These are applied with -p0 by default, but it's utterly
trivial to specify -p1 if necessary.  The choice of context vs.
unified diffs is immaterial; patch(1) handles both formats.

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Christian "naddy" Weisgerber                          naddy at mips.inka.de




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