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What is the "extra information" in this context?

• mkl 9y ago
  The patch metadata: which lines have changed for what purpose.
  • sigjuice 9y ago
    Sorry, I am still not sure what you mean. Could you point me at an example of 'patch metadata'? Thanks!
    • sanxiyn 9y ago
      Here is an example of patch metadata, in this case for Debian: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/tree/debian/patches/series https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/linux.git/tree/debian... "Without patch metadata" would be a single file patch.
      • sigjuice 9y ago
        Thanks! A CentOS 6 kernel source rpm that I unpacked recently had multiple patch files in it.