Messages in this thread | | | From | Daniel Phillips <> | Subject | Re: Htree directory index for Ext2, updated | Date | Fri, 17 May 2002 07:18:23 +0200 |
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On Friday 17 May 2002 06:22, Albert D. Cahalan wrote: > > After learning to my horror that gnu patch will, if a patch was made to be > > applied with option -p0, sometimes apply patches to your 'clean' tree (the > > one with the ---'s) instead of the target tree (the one with the +++'s) I > > decided to switch to -p1, and that is how this patch is to be applied. > > The worst thing is that gnu patch will make > this decision on a per-file basis, so you > can't then back out the changes with -R. > > Do like this: > > diff -Naurd old new > > IMPORTANT: the directory names should have > the same number of characters in them.
Why is that?
> Do not try something like: > > diff -Naurd bad idea > diff -Naurd doomed 2fail > > Don't use "linux" for a name. Don't use > anything Linus might use. Pick your own > equal-length directory names, and don't > distribute tarballs containing them. > This prevents source-destroying disasters.
I think you're saying that patch is broken by design. And what's the standard argument for not fixing it?
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