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

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2017 at 01:35:25PM -0500, Pedro Giffuni wrote:
> 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.

But -p1 already solves the problem in a generic way.  What good is to add
specific code to make it git-or-next-cool-kid-on-the-block-aware?

./danfe