> This wouldn't be an issue if patches were XML or JSON with a well defined schema, but everything must be a boutique undocumented format in the world of Unix tools.
Patch files are readable by humans. Replacing them with XML or JSON would fix this problem, but at the expense of removing a core feature.
Patch files are readable by humans. Replacing them with XML or JSON would fix this problem, but at the expense of removing a core feature.