[haiku-development] Re: [PATCH 3/4] Remove special handling of vesa driver from screen preflet.
- From: Ingo Weinhold <ingo_weinhold@xxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 22:59:52 +0200
On 2008-05-28 at 21:09:24 [+0200], Rene Gollent <anevilyak@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx>
> wrote:
> >
> > I can't argue against that then.
> >
> > OSX v10.5 man page (dated 2003/05/08, v2.5.8) has it different and so
does
> > the GNU diffutils manual:
> > http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/patch-Directories.html#patch%20Directories
> >
> > Let's conclude that it might differ between versions or systems. Stephan,
> > check patch --help, and in doubt use --dry-run first.
>
> I might be wrong, the way it's worded makes it somewhat ambiguous in
> the case where the path to the file doesn't start with a /, since all
> its examples involve a leading / :) The way it's worded to me says
> that if it has a/b as a relative path and you do -p0, it should strip
> the a but leave the / alone, but I'd need to test that. Not really a
> big concern though.
I haven't seen absolute paths in diffs yet, but for relative paths Andreas
is definitely right. -p0 strips nothing, -p1 one path component, and so on.
CU, Ingo
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