Re: Patch name changes

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 02:31:02PM +0200, Thomas Klausner wrote:
 > > >  sed -e "s,_,__,g"  -e "s,/,_,g"
 > > 
 > > Is there any reason why e.g. comma (or something else) couldn't
 > > be used in place of slash in the file path, so [...]
 > 
 > If you look closely, the patch for a file called "file_name" is called
 > "patch-file__name".

a_/a.c and a/_a.c both become a___a.c :-)

However, if we're going to do this I do think it would be better to
use a less common filename character than underscore, such as comma,
just for aesthetic reasons.

-- 
David A. Holland
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