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has caused the Debian Bug report #386188,
regarding -o creates empty output on null patch
to be marked as having been forwarded to the upstream software
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Hi,
the appended bug report was reported as Debian bug #386188:
Christoph
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Package: patch
Version: 2.5.9-4
Severity: normal
[11/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls -al
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 2 mh mh 4.0K Sep 5 23:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 mh mh 4.0K Sep 5 16:58 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mh mh 5.5K Sep 5 23:04 some-file*
[12/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ patch some-file /dev/null
[13/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls -al
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 2 mh mh 4.0K Sep 5 23:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 mh mh 4.0K Sep 5 16:58 ../
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mh mh 5.5K Sep 5 23:04 some-file*
[14/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ patch -o other-file some-file /dev/null
[15/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ ls -al
total 16K
drwxr-xr-x 2 mh mh 4.0K Sep 5 23:06 ./
drwxr-xr-x 18 mh mh 4.0K Sep 5 16:58 ../
-rw------- 1 mh mh 0 Sep 5 23:06 other-file
-rwxr-xr-x 1 mh mh 5.5K Sep 5 23:04 some-file*
[16/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$
I think that patch -o should create a copy of the input file if fed a
null patch, as this is the same behavior as when editing a file in
place with a null patch.
Greetings
Marc
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