Mike,
Am 13. Januar 2012 04:49 schrieb Mike Hodson <[email protected]>:
> I belive that the console output of 'patch' when in 'dry-run' mode should
> actually notify of this and explicitly mention that no files will be written
> or modified.
at the moment, patch will output something like this for rejects, with as well
as without --dry-run:
patching file f
Hunk #1 FAILED at 2.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED -- saving rejects to file f.rej
I definitely agree that patch should not say "saving rejects to file"
if it does not
in fact create any reject files -- this is just stupid. Something like
this might be
better in --dry-run mode:
checking file f
Hunk #1 FAILED at 2.
1 out of 1 hunk FAILED
The big question is how many tools this change will break.
What do others on this list think?
Thanks,
Andreas
