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authorAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2009-03-22 22:24:03 +0100
committerAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>2009-03-22 22:32:04 +0100
commitb85f4543b42f53f00de28ab0100cc155877357a5 (patch)
tree4f150a4eff4cf9c2e606ce1e8841595a1d9e38ba /NEWS
parentf10b753b709da47f0c115512739dbb15e615ac9d (diff)
downloadpatch-b85f4543b42f53f00de28ab0100cc155877357a5.tar.gz
When conforming to POSIX and no filename was given or found, ask
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* Unless a filename has been specified on the command line, look only
for filenames in the patch until one has been found. Start looking
for hunks only after that. This prevents patch from tripping over
- garbage that isn't a patch.
+ garbage that isn't a patch. When conforming to POSIX, this behavior
+ is turned off and patch will ask for a filename when none is found.
* Reject more malformed normal format commands and check for trailing
garbage. Recognize ed commands without addresses.
* All reject files have file name headers, which allows to use them