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I can't really explain this bug better than the irc log explains it: :-) <twaugh> markmc: er.. gendiff comes from rpm, not patchutils <twaugh> markmc: but maybe I should add a gendiff (which works) <alex> from rpm??? <twaugh> alex: sure, try rpm -qf /usr/bin/gendiff <alex> but why? <markmc> twaugh, ah :-) <markmc> twaugh, that makes no sense ! :-) <twaugh> markmc: change the summary to 'RFE: add a gendiff that works' and I'll look at it in a spare moment <twaugh> markmc: while I'm at it I could make it use -p This is in reference to a bug I logged against gendiff - bug #11963
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Original bug report: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=119693
Another idea for a new gendiff: http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2008-April/msg01813.html It's easy to lose a patch header when you re-diff a patch because you have to do e.g. $> head -10 foo-fix-bar.patch > t.tmp $> gendiff foo-1.2.3 .fix-bar >> t.tmp $> mv t.tmp foo-fix-bar.patch but it'd be much nicer to be able to just do: $> gendiff foo-1.2.3 .fix-bar foo-fix-bar.patch and have the patch header retained