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Package: patch
Version: 2.5.9-2
Severity: wishlist
It would be nice if patch had an option to report if a patch had
already been applied to a file or files.
Thanks,
Dave
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Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.7
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Re: David N. Welton 2004-08-02 <[email protected]>
> >>It would be nice if patch had an option to report if a patch had
> >>already been applied to a file or files.
>
> >Maybe I'm misunderstanding something, but:
> >
> >mich...@caemlyn:/tmp$ patch -p0 <foo.diff
> >patching file foo
> >mich...@caemlyn:/tmp$ patch -p0 <foo.diff
> >patching file foo
> >Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n]
> >Apply anyway? [n]
> >Skipping patch.
>
> Sure, but think about scripting this. I want to be able to access
> this information programmatically, and not do it by having to parse
> all that junk.
Hi,
here's upstream's answer on that request:
Di 29 Dez 2009 18:16:10 UTC, Kommentar #1:
Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
For patches which don't modify the same file more than once in
conflicting ways, applying a patch with -R --dry-run will succeed when
a patch has been applied already.
It's a deficiency of --dry-run that it doesn't work for arbitrary
input. When the input to patch modifies the same file twice, the order
of those modifications would also have to be reversed when determining
if a patch has already been applied. I have no plans to address the
latter problem.
I'm closing the Debian report as well.
Christoph
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