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GNU patch: upcoming stable release; call for testing
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Andreas Gruenbacher |
Subject: |
GNU patch: upcoming stable release; call for testing |
Date: |
Tue, 4 May 2010 00:29:56 +0200 |
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I am pleased to announce that there is progress towards the next stable
release of GNU patch. This is a call for testing so that things will work as
expected, on as many platforms as possible.
The upcoming release will include several new features:
* 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.)
* 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
octal number between 0 and 255) are recognized.
* Refuse to patch read-only files by default, or at least warn when patching
such files with --force or --batch.
* Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous versions of patch
were wrongly replacing the symlink with a regular file.)
* When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of assuming the
local time zone (--set-date) or Universal Coordinated Time (--set-utc).
* Support for nanosecond precision timestamps.
Behind the scenes, some infrastructure changes have happened as well: the
project now uses GNU Automake, and the previous, static copy of the Gnulib
library has been replaced by a git submodule.
The project home with the development repository, bug tracker, and bug-
address@hidden mailing list archive is located at:
http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/patch
Development snapshots will be made available on:
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/
Previous stable releases are available at:
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/
Please send bug reports or suggestions to <address@hidden>.
Thanks,
Andreas
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