[bug-patch] [PATCH][bug #26148] Always default value of GET_PATCH to zero.

[Vincent Legoll]

Hello,

Andreas Gruenbacher asked me to post to this list to discuss
the bug I reported about changing default value of GET_PATCH
for GNU patch without any "-g" command line option.
        
URL: <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?26148>

Here is the rationale for the patch:

Patch should default to not try to get files from revision
control software unless actively asked by the user with
the "-g" or "--get" command-line switches or the
PATCH_GET environment variable.

Make the "posixly-correct" behaviour of not using source
control, the global patch default. I.e. default to "-g0".

This is related to debian BTS bug: #200895
Please refer to that discussion for more background
information and discussion.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=200895

I wrote this patch, because, like the debian bug reporter,
I was annoyed by patch default behaviour of bugging me with
perforce-related error messages when I had no perforce server
running, nor was I working with files under perforce source
control management.

-- 
Vincent Legoll

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