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| author | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> | 2009-04-07 00:02:39 +0200 |
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| committer | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> | 2009-04-07 02:12:46 +0200 |
| commit | b7a82a44b8927e92922ecfcb881c5463e17e37ff (patch) | |
| tree | 7ca243ce545392bce8625cd4dafcac2ae0ff8a37 /NEWS | |
| parent | 7a4abf4e56e10162ee12cf174c1bcc3e54f985e9 (diff) | |
| download | patch-b7a82a44b8927e92922ecfcb881c5463e17e37ff.tar.gz | |
Update NEWS
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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 18 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions
@@ -7,15 +7,14 @@ patch from tripping over garbage that isn't a patch. When conforming to POSIX, this behavior is turned off and patch will ask for a filename if none is found. -* All reject files have file name headers, so they are now well-formed - patches. +* All reject files have file name headers, which allows them to be used as + regular patches. * When a patch file modifies the same file more than once, patch makes - sure it backs up the original version of the file, rather than any + sure it backs up the original version of the file rather than any intermediary versions. * In the above situation, if there are rejects in more than one of those - patches, the rejects are appended to the same reject file (rather then - overwriting themselves). -* The -r option works correctly even when there are rejects in more than + patches, they all go into the same reject file. +* The -r option works correctly even if there are rejects in more than one file. Use the - argument to discard rejects. * Rejected hunks come out in unified diff format if the input patch was of that format, otherwise in ordinary context diff form. Use the @@ -26,12 +25,11 @@ still marked with '+' and '-', respectively. * The file permissions of reject files are no longer set to match the files they modify. Instead, they retain the default permissions. This is - consistent with reject files to which rejects of multiple files may be - written (-r option). + consistent with reject files produced with the -r option. * The --binary option disables the heuristic for stripping CRs from line endings in patches. This allows to preserve CRs even in mangled - patches, or in patches generated without the --binary option on non-POSIX - systems. + patches, or in patches generated on non-POSIX systems and without the + --binary option. * Backup files for nonexisting files are now created with default permissions rather than with mode 0: backup files with mode 0 were causing problems with applications which do not expect unreadable |