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26.0.50; epatch for multifile patches

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From: Filipp Gunbin <fgunbin <at> fastmail.fm>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: 26028 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Arseny Sher <sher-ars <at> yandex.ru>, Tino Calancha <tino.calancha <at> gmail.com>, Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de>, Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>, Kaushal Modi <kaushal.modi <at> gmail.com>
Subject: bug#26028: 26.0.50; epatch for multifile patches
Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 19:29:21 +0300

On 10/05/2021 14:02 +0200, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen <at> web.de> writes:
>
>> AFAIR it solved my problem, but I can't judge whether it's ok to
>> install since I don't know the code.
>
> The patch no longer applies cleanly -- do you have an up-to-date version
> of Tino's patch in your tree, by any chance?  Or did you just try it
> then, and then back it out again?
>
> Looking at the commit history for ediff, it doesn't really look like we
> have any ediff domain experts to evaluate the patch, which makes it hard
> to decide whether to try to apply the patch or not.

I've looked into ediff some months ago (when writing a function which
opens new multifile ediff session for comparing vc commits; it's
unfinished yet).  So I could look at the patch if needed.

Filipp

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