Comment 2 for bug 708897

Are you *sure* this confuses patch? I can't see why it would; patch has never paid attention to anything but the backslash at the beginning of these lines: <http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/tree/pch.c?id=bcce1233902dc7a94623b3a90cd7920c44f22474#n1235>.

(And don't be deceived by any timestamps you might see in the git repository: that's from diff 2.2, released on 1997-04-17.)