[Toybox] [PATCH]patch: support unified diffs with unusual timestamp formats

William Haddon william at haddonthethird.net
Wed Aug 28 15:15:52 PDT 2019


I'm slightly confused about how the existing code is supposed to handle 
filenames with tabs followed by digits.

On 08/28/2019 05:44:44 PM, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 8/28/19 3:16 PM, William Haddon wrote:
> > This supports patches that have timestamp formats like
> > "--- a/libgomp/config/posix/time.c	Thu Dec 24 11:24:47 2015
> > -0500"
> > which do not begin with a digit. An example is the musl support
> patches 
> > for GCC 5 at https://github.com/GregorR/musl-gcc-patches , which
> seem 
> > to have been generated by Mercurial.
> 
> I.E. "drop support for filenames with tabs in them"?
> 
> Rob
> 





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