Re: [Quilt-dev] diff and dos line endings

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Saturday 09 April 2005 14:37, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've been working on getting quilt packaged for Fedora Extras and one of
> the users brought the following to my attention:
>
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154283
>
> To summarize, when using the --show-c-functions option on files with dos
> line endings diff generates patches that no longer apply cleanly.

Looks like a GNU diff bug, so it should be fixed in GNU diff I would say.

> I know this isn't a problem with quilt, but the question was raised as
> to whether the --show-c-functions option should be in the default
> quiltrc file.  Any thoughts?

In my opinion, --show-c-functions is usually a good idea, and it's more often 
useful than not.

Cheers,
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Andreas Gruenbacher <address@hidden>
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