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Re: [patch] : fix broken diff output

From: Branko Čibej <brane_at_xbc.nu>
Date: 2003-06-03 22:59:35 CEST

Bill Rees wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Branko Čibej" <brane@xbc.nu>
>To: "David Kimdon" <dwhedon@debian.org>
>Cc: <dev@subversion.tigris.org>; <195334-quiet@bugs.debian.org>
>Sent: Monday, June 02, 2003 10:46 PM
>Subject: Re: [patch] : fix broken diff output
>
>
>David Kimdon wrote:
>
>
>
>>Patch based on suggestion from John Lenz <jelenz@students.wisc.edu>
>>
>>* subversion/libsvn_client/diff.c (diff_file_changed) : Delimit filename
>>
>>
>with
>
>
>> tab instead of space since some versions of patch accept space as a valid
>> character in a filename.
>>
>>
>>
>> They accept spaces, but not tabs? How's that for consistency...
>
>If you are on a Windows box filenames may contain spaces but not tabs so if
>you want to run patch you need to support spaces but not tabs
>
>
Of course. And I do concede that spaces in filenames are more common
than tabs. But I've seem filenames with backspaces in them on Unix. :-)

-- 
Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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