On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 01:42:09AM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Which of the two methods described in step 1 do you have in mind?
Non-POSIX, for context diffs. Rephrased to apply to svn patch: svn patch will examine the ``old'' and ``new'' file names, and choose the file name with the fewest path components, the shortest basename, and the shortest total file name length (in that order). > Whatever we do, the algorithm should be predictable, i.e., a user should > be able to know (from reading a patch) what path it would be applied to. The above is predictable. Stefan
