On Monday, August 1, 2011 4:12:12 PM UTC+1, jason wrote:
>
> Pardon my ignorance, but what does "fuzz n" mean and how is it different
> for different values of n?
>
Let me quote "man patch":
With context diffs, and to a lesser extent with normal diffs,
patch can
detect when
On 8/1/11 3:08 AM, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
Sometimes, it can happen that a patch only applies with "fuzz", for example:
$ hg import
http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/11298/trac11298_singular_standard_options.rebase4.7.1.a1.patch
patching file doc/en/reference/misc.rst
Hunk #
Hi!
On 1 Aug., 12:08, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
> Sometimes, it can happen that a patch only applies with "fuzz", for example:
>
> $ hg
> importhttp://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/raw-attachment/ticket/11298/trac11...
> patching file doc/en/reference/misc.rst
> Hunk #1 succeeded at 10 with fuzz 2 (of
On Monday, August 1, 2011 11:08:28 AM UTC+1, Jeroen Demeyer wrote:
>
> My personal opinion on applying patches with fuzz is that I allow
> patches with fuzz 1 but not with fuzz 2.
>
There is no guaranteed safe way of dealing with fuzzy patches. I think your
position is reasonable. Ideally, the pa
