Re: 'patch --reject-file'

Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se> writes:
> A minor thing I discovered when I tried a 'make check' is that
> libsvn_wc/get_editor.c runs patch with the argument --reject-file=<file>,
> while older versions of patch doesn't feature that option. It was merely -r
> <file> back then. Also, if the diff would use -c it would work even for
> non-gnu versions of both diff and patch...
>
> Now, I'm not sure this is worth fixing or not, I just thought I'd mention it.
>
> My 'patch -v' says:
> Patch version 2.0, patch level 12u8

I think they're both worth fixing as defaults, since they only
increase portability. Of course, in real life these parameters will
be controllable at configure time and maybe even at run time.
Received on Sat Oct 21 14:36:14 2006