On Fri, 14 Aug 2009, Charles Plessy wrote: > Le Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:41:40AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog a écrit : > > On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > > > - create directories that do not exist yet (patch will not do that for > > > > you AFAIK or at least that's the assumption that the current codebase > > > > made, it might have changed since this part of the code has been > > > > written) > > > > > > According to the man page, and to tests I did, it does > > > > So there's room for code removal, cool. Any hint since when this is the > > case? > > By the way, patch also has --set-time and --set-utc options that could further > open the door to the code removal.
No, those options rely on the presence of timestamps in patches and apply those timestamps. Unfortunately: 1/ those timestamps are optional (and in many cases they are absent) 2/ those timestamps correspond to times when the patch file was created and are not in sync between multiple patches Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
