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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Subject: Re: Creating CVS-style patch headers with git-diff
Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2011 17:17:26 +0100
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David Chanters <david.chanters@googlemail.com> writes:

> Sorry about that, that's poor wording on my part.  I don't mean "CVS
> won't barf" -- I meant that GNU Patch can still apply the patch
> without the meta-data referencing git still.

So this has nothing at all to do with CVS.  And GNU patch will happily
ignore everything that it does not recognize.

Andreas.

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