From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@gnu.org>
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 15:26:01 GMT
Subject: Re: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches
Message-ID: <ma8am9$t01$1@ger.gmane.org>
In-Reply-To: <CA+55aFxbY21vBbPs5qCFPT1HSBbaeS+Z2Fr9So1r3rXrMWe_ZQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:44:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I've considered that for a while already, because "patch" _does_ kind of
> understand them these days, although I think it gets the cross-rename
> case wrong because it fundamentally works on a file-by-file basis.

Patch handles cross-renames correctly nowadays; if not, it's a bug.

That's not enough to solve the symlink problem unfortunately.

Andreas