From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 4 16:12:01 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA09387 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:12:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from lsd.relcom.eu.net (ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net [193.124.23.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09360 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:11:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net) Received: (from ache@localhost) by lsd.relcom.eu.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA06528; Mon, 5 Jan 1998 03:11:18 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from ache) Date: Mon, 5 Jan 1998 03:11:16 +0300 (MSK) From: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= X-Sender: ache@lsd.relcom.eu.net To: Nate Williams cc: FreeBSD-current Subject: Re: New patch: one thing to think about In-Reply-To: <199801042354.QAA20276@mt.sri.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=KOI8-R Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Nate Williams wrote: > =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= writes: > > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Андрей Чернов wrote: > > > > > To say it simple, no *.orig files created now unless you specify > > > -b option. > > > > Oops, not so simple. No *.orig created only if patch applies _cleanly_, > > if something is rejected, *.orig created by default. > > Ahh, never mind my previous reply then, unless it doesn't create a patch > if there are fuzz problems or otherwise. Sometimes I've had patches > 'apply cleanly' when in fact the fuzz factor caused them to patch > completely wrong parts of the system. Backup created for 'fuzz' too by default. Only _completely_ clean patches goes without backup. -- Andrey A. Chernov http://www.nagual.pp.ru/~ache/