svn commit: r320579 - head/usr.bin/patch

[Pedro Giffuni]

On 7/3/2017 1:17 PM, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 10:42:15AM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
>> On 07/02/17 21:53, Conrad Meyer wrote:
>>> Does this change the behavior of 'patch -p1' (for example) with 'git
>>> diff' generated diffs?  So patches that could be applied with -p1
>>> before now need to be applied with -p0?  Or is this a different mode
>>> of patch?
>> IMHO, the (new) BSD patch behavior is somewhat more natural in the sense
>> that no one asked git to add a prefix to the path so it makes sense to
>> ignore it.
> But -p1 already solves the problem; why add any ad-hoc handling to some
> particular program that tends to generate patches whatever the way it
> does?

The behavior only applies to git diffs.

Pedro.