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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless


From: Phil Frost
Subject: Re: [Gnu-arch-users] --forward mostly harmless
Date: 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




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