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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Good News about GNU Arch!


From: Miles Bader
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Good News about GNU Arch!
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 21:32:31 +0900

2005/10/28, Alfred M. Szmidt <address@hidden>:
>    At least in the communities I'm a part of, -p1 seems to basically
>    be the standard these days.
>
> Interesting, on my side it is standard to use -p0, I only see patches
> with one meta-level (-p1) very rarely.  But that might be because I
> tend to work on CVS projects, where the standard way to make a diff is
> `cvs diff -u' which defaults to the top-level (which generates patches
> with no meta-level).

The useful thing about a meta-level is that it provides some context
for the names -- e.g., in a patch-file I made today:

--- gcc-3.4.4/gcc/reload1.c     2005-03-18 06:11:35.000000000 +0900
+++ gcc-3.4.4-supk0-20051028/gcc/reload1.c      2005-10-28 20:32:40.695594000 
+0900

As I'm careful to always use meaningful tags, that tells me exactly
what was diffed, and does so in an in-band manner that is unlikely to
get lost (e.g., by patch-munging programs) or overlooked.

-miles
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