On Jun 2, 2015, at 3:38 PM, René J.V. Bertin <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tuesday June 02 2015 15:09:48 Lawrence Velázquez wrote:
>
>> Okay; I wasn't sure if patch could deal with them.
>
> Patchfiles (at least unified diffs) have context, which is why you get those
> weird @@ lines in them: they describe where to expect the pattern to be
> found, but also how many of the lines following the @@ are to be included in
> that pattern.
Yes, I know how to read (and edit) context diffs.
> Patchfiles in Linux packages routinely contain the commit message because
> that helps understand what the patch does, and it's not uncommon to find
> similar patches in ${filespath} directories.
I knew that patches could have ancillary text at the top. What I didn't know
was that said text could be interspersed between hunks as well.
vq
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