no patch to .brik in latest snapshot diff!

[Mark Phillips]

If you upgrade to GNU patch 2.5, it supports doing this for you (see -Z
and -T options). You do need to be careful when creating the patches
though (see the man page).

The later version of patch also deals better with creating files from
scratch and removing files.

Have fun
Mark

PS. Note the default behaviour of patch has changed - you may want -bv


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On 18 Jan 1998, Joseph H. Buehler wrote:

> Joe Buck <jbuck@synopsys.com> writes:
> 
> > We've persistently had problems with diffs.  It seems that there should
> > be a better way to safely automate the process, e.g. a script that takes
> > two xxx.tar.gz files and produces a diff that is guaranteed to turn the
> > first one into the second one.  If this were done once it would never
> > go wrong again.
> 
> I would like to see something to get the file dates correct after
> "patch" is done, also.
> 
> Joe Buehler
>