From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 4 15:52:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA07715 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:52:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA07709 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 15:52:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA06297; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:52:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id QAA20269; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:52:40 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:52:40 -0700 Message-Id: <199801042352.QAA20269@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= Cc: FreeBSD-current Subject: Re: New patch: one thing to think about In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Please note that new patch behave different in one essential place > (from new patch manpage): > > In traditional patch, backups were enabled by default. > This behavior is now enabled with the -b or --backup > option. ... > Bringing this fact to your attention I means, that either we can > accept new way of things, or assume -b by default simulating old variant. I'd like to see backups always done personally, so if it's not done by default, I'll modify my local versions. For development I consider it a *requirement* to do backups for when backups don't work quite right. Nate