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From: wohler@milk1.istc.sri.com..istc.sri.com (Bill Wohler)
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Subject: Re: Caution, study first hunk when applying patches to X11 files.
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Date: 21 Dec 87 19:11:40 GMT
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paulsh@shark.gwd.tek.COM writes:
>
>To summarize, Don't blindly ignore a failed first hunk!

  thanks for the warning paul.

  in addition, i would like to add that patch #60 had a shar archive
  contained within it that patch (and i) had ignored.  i usually run
  patch on the whole FIXES file, but after discovering this, i now
  grep for "/bin/sh" in the archive.  a warning about FIXES files that 
  have any non-diffs in them should be announced to xpert.

						--bw