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Re: Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff

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Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date
Jan 8, 2011, 16:17 UTC
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David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:
> Sorry about that, that's poor wording on my part.  I don't mean "CVS
> won't barf" -- I meant that GNU Patch can still apply the patch
> without the meta-data referencing git still.

So this has nothing at all to do with CVS. And GNU patch will happily ignore everything that it does not recognize.

Andreas.
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