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

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

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?
 
./danfe