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author | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> | 2010-09-17 13:16:08 +0200 |
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committer | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> | 2010-09-17 13:16:08 +0200 |
commit | 7e6d1e67182b79d4e0de4f6e1d7f70009c57590c (patch) | |
tree | 9a6f25734daf43c0205708f05c1721ede7de93dc /NEWS | |
parent | 19aecf81082fa21b47e59a3a3b828efdd82be82f (diff) | |
download | patch-7e6d1e67182b79d4e0de4f6e1d7f70009c57590c.tar.gz |
Document that "diff --git" criss-cross renames don't work
* NEWS: Document that "diff --git" criss-cross renames are broken
still.
* tests/criss-cross: Test case currently expected to fail.
Diffstat (limited to 'NEWS')
-rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 7 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,6 +1,9 @@ * Support for most features of the "diff --git" format: renames and copies, - permission changes, symlink diffs. (Binary diffs are not supported yet; - patch will complain and skip them.) + permission changes, symlink diffs. Caveats: + + Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and skip them. + + In the "diff --git" format, all the patches are relative to the original + state of the files to patch, allowing things like criss-cross renames. + GNU patch will currently fail for such patches. * Support for double-quoted filenames: when a filename in a context diff starts with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string literal. The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and \ooo (a three-digit |