Hi all, The manual page of patch states:
CAVEATS Context diffs cannot reliably represent the creation or deletion of empty files , empty directories, or special files such as symbolic links. Nor can they represent changes to fil e metadata like ownership, permissions, or whether one file is a hard link to another. If changes like these are also required, separate instructions (e.g. a shell script) to accomplish them should accompany the patch. This was written long ago. Since then, support was added for some git extensions to the unified patch format. I know that at least changing the permissions of existing file, and setting the permissions on new files, can be done that way. I don't know about the rest. Shouldn't that be mentioned in this section, as an alternative to a shell script? Thanks, -- Jean Delvare SUSE L3 Support
