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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless
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Phil Frost |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless |
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Mon, 13 Sep 2004 13:50:44 -0400 |
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I think this just applies to normal diffs, that is, not unidiff, because
it has no context.
On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 07:38:41PM +0200, David Allouche wrote:
> I have not thought much about the potential failure modes of that
> approach, but it did press a red button.
>
> >From the "Applying Reversed Patches" info page:
>
> This method cannot detect a reversed patch if it is a normal
> diff and the first command is an append (which should have been
> a delete) since appends always succeed, because a null context
> matches anywhere. But most patches add or change lines rather
> than delete them, so most reversed normal diffs begin with a
> delete, which fails, and `patch' notices.
>
> At least, the approach you propose will cause deletes to always be
> ignored. Well, maybe we do need something smarter than patch(1).
>
> It the meantime, let us just delete the --forward option. It's cruft.
>
> --
> -- ddaa
- [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, David Allouche, 2004/09/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Tom Lord, 2004/09/12
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Miles Bader, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, David Allouche, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Miles Bader, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Aaron Bentley, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, David Allouche, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless,
Phil Frost <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Aaron Bentley, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, David Allouche, 2004/09/13
- [Gnu-arch-users] Re: --forward mostly harmless, Stefan Monnier, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, David Allouche, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, James Blackwell, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Miles Bader, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, James Blackwell, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Miles Bader, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, James Blackwell, 2004/09/13
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless, Miles Bader, 2004/09/13