+ Patch no longer gets a failed assertion for certain mangled
patches.
+ Ignore destination file names that are absolute or that contain
a component of "..", except when working in the root directory.
This addresses CVE-2010-4651.
+ Support for most features of the "diff --git" format, including
renames and copies, permission changes, and symlink diffs.
Binary diffs are not supported yet; patch will complain and
skip them.
+ Support for double-quoted filenames: when a filename starts
with a double quote, it is interpreted as a C string literal.
The escape sequences \\, \", \a, \b, \f, \n, \r, \t, \v, and
\ooo (a three-digit octal number between 0 and 255) are
recognized.
+ Refuse to apply a normal patch to a symlink. (Previous versions
of patch were replacing the symlink with a regular file.)
+ New --follow-symlinks option to allow to treat symlinks as
files: this was patch's behavior before version 2.7.
+ When trying to modify a read-only file, warn about the
potential problem by default. The --read-only command line
option allows to change this behavior.
+ Files to be deleted are deleted once the entire input has been
processed, not immediately. This fixes a bug with numbered
backup files.
+ When a timestamp specifies a time zone, honor that instead of
assuming the local time zone (--set-date) or Universal
Coordinated Time (--set-utc).
+ Support for nanosecond precision timestamps.
+ Many bug fixes.
+ Clarify the message printed when a patch is expected to empty
out and delete a file, but the file does not become empty.
+ Various improvements to messages when applying a patch to a
file of different type (regular file vs. symlink), when there
are line ending differences (LF vs. CRLF), and when in
--dry-run mode.
+ Ignore when extended attributes cannot be preserved because
they are unsupported or because permission to set them is
denied.
- patch-revert-e0f70752.patch: Dropped, original bug fixed
upstream.
- patch-stdio.in.patch: Dropped, merged upstream.
OBS-URL: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/devel:tools/patch?expand=0&rev=35
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