The first of the NEWS announcements for patch-2.7.0 on http://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=7361 was: --- 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. --- But I learnd from trying the patch for kernel linux-4.14.10 it does not handle git diff statements int patches for mode execution bit. After an upstream bug report the new patch-2.7.6 has correctly implemented this feature!
2.7.6 is already available in the main tree since 7th Feb. Is this a fast stabling request or something?
Yeah That bug for me on vanilla-sources and someone else on gentoo-sources took some life time ... (but there quickly was a workaround introduced via patchset)
And isn't it funny that bug: The main achievement claimed for the patch-2.7 never recognized not working since 2012 ... an example of how importand tests are ...
@ Arches, please test and mark stable: =sys-devel/patch-2.7.6-r1 Targets: "alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ia64 m68k ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86"
x86 stable
commit 3e5901cabe8bdd357ed86ae8af7cbe91f985b842 Author: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de> Date: Tue Feb 13 00:12:16 2018 +0100 sys-devel/patch: stable 2.7.6-r1 for hppa/sparc, bug #647270
amd64 stable
ia64 stable
Stable on alpha.
arm stable
ppc/ppc64 stable
sh stable
arm64 stable
Done
