On Tue, Oct 26, 2004 at 02:51:47PM +0200, Otto Moerbeek wrote:
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> This soudns awfully complicated, especially when keeping in mind that
> patch should handle paths with non-existent components...

My second email had a "last chance" option for non-existing files.

Anyway, then my vote goes for "screw localized timestamps" and just
get whatever comes between "^(marker)(white-space)" and
"(white-space)(Sun|Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat)(white-space).*$".

And screw filenames like "The Sun Is Shining". Who would do that and
even patch it anyway?

But before drawing a line between what's awfully complicated and
what's not, let's perhaps agree on a set of diff formats to accept.
Perhaps someone with access to large variations of diff(1) could
populate regress/usr.bin/patch with what's going to be accepted and
then we find out how to do it.

Sorry about creating tasks for the "someone" entity.

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