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From: Alex Xu <alex_y_xu@×××××.ca>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 19:27:38
Message-Id: 51607706.3010108@yahoo.ca
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Establishing Gentoo patch policy to keep our patches consistent and clean by "Paweł Hajdan
1 On 06/04/13 03:02 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
2 > Are there any other formats than unified and context diff? If not, it'd
3 > be like another "for indoor or outdoor use only" or "home or office use"
4 > - i.e. no need to explicitly list all possible options.
5
6 From the man page:
7
8 > -c, -C NUM, --context[=NUM]
9 > output NUM (default 3) lines of copied context
10 >
11 > -u, -U NUM, --unified[=NUM]
12 > output NUM (default 3) lines of unified context
13 >
14 > -e, --ed
15 > output an ed script
16 >
17 > -n, --rcs
18 > output an RCS format diff
19 >
20 > -y, --side-by-side
21 > output in two columns
22
23 Plus the default.
24
25 On 06/04/13 03:02 PM, "Paweł Hajdan, Jr." wrote:
26 > How about having a one guessing and one non-guessing variant of epatch,
27 > and encouraging the non-guessing one?
28
29 User1: how do i put a patch in an ebuild
30 User2: use epatch_guesslevel

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