I reported that bug upstream, and attached a
patch that fix the default behaviour.
https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?26148
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Vincent Legoll
From 25dfd69675d7a2888ba96df450edf797a506ac93 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vincent Legoll <vincent.leg...@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 16:44:59 +0200
Subject: [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.
---
patch.man | 4 +---
src/patch.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/patch.man b/patch.man
index 2720090..54e5ba0 100644
--- a/patch.man
+++ b/patch.man
@@ -392,9 +392,7 @@ and does not get the file; and if negative,
asks the user whether to get the file.
The default value of this option is given by the value of the
.B PATCH_GET
-environment variable if it is set; if not, the default value is zero if
-.B patch
-is conforming to \s-1POSIX\s0, negative otherwise.
+environment variable if it is set; if not, the default value is zero.
.TP
.B "\*=help"
Print a summary of options and exit.
diff --git a/src/patch.c b/src/patch.c
index 59c6fb0..ba62958 100644
--- a/src/patch.c
+++ b/src/patch.c
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
backup_if_mismatch = ! posixly_correct;
patch_get = ((val = getenv ("PATCH_GET"))
? numeric_string (val, true, "PATCH_GET value")
- : posixly_correct - 1);
+ : 0);
val = getenv ("SIMPLE_BACKUP_SUFFIX");
simple_backup_suffix = val && *val ? val : ".orig";
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1.5.6.3
