Re: [bug-patch] Time for a new release?

[Jean Delvare]

On Friday 06 April 2012 11:03:24 pm Andreas Grünbacher wrote:
> Jean,
> 
> Am 5. April 2012 16:47 schrieb Jean Delvare <address@hidden>:
> > Hi developers,
> >
> > Last stable release of GNU patch was over 2 years ago. Last alpha
> > snapshot was 1 year ago. Maybe it's time for another alpha snapshot
> > at least, and preferably a stable release? It's a little sad to see
> > all the development efforts that went into the project during the
> > past 2 years and users aren't benefiting from these.
> 
> I have uploaded a new snapshot:
> 
>   ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.6.1.157-ed08.tar.gz
> 
> Before the next release, I want to complete the git diff format
> support, and this requires fixing bug 31058. Bug 25860 may be easily
> fixed based on that as well. I hope to have time for that relatively
> soon.
> 
>   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?31058  "diff --git" criss-cross
>  renames broken
>   http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?25860  Patch --dry-run
>  fails when a patch modifies files more than once

Great, thanks Andreas!

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Jean Delvare
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