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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 |