Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Fri, 29 Jul 2005, Randy McMurchy wrote:
> 
> 
>>Not to mention that the man page says that increasing the fuzz
>>factor can result in a faulty patch. My feeling is that using the
>>-F flag is encouraging readers to do something which should really
>>be discouraged.
>>
> 
>  Indeed.  If you have to increase the fuzz to get it to apply, you
> really need to look at the code to make sure it will still do the right
> thing.  Sounds as if Bruce did that, but I think it could set a bad
> example.

OK, that's two.  I have already built the new patch and will use that.

BTW, yes I did check to see if the patch was applied correctly with the
fuzz.  It was/is a pretty simple patch--almost sed material.

  -- Bruce
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