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SubjectRe: patch-2.7.3 no longer applies relative symbolic link patches
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On Mon, 26 Jan 2015 12:44:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I've considered that for a while already, because "patch" _does_ kind of
> understand them these days, although I think it gets the cross-rename
> case wrong because it fundamentally works on a file-by-file basis.

Patch handles cross-renames correctly nowadays; if not, it's a bug.

That's not enough to solve the symlink problem unfortunately.

Andreas



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