Le vendredi 23 novembre 2012 à 13:40 +0100, Andreas Grünbacher a écrit : > 2012/11/23 Jean Delvare <[email protected]> > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > I noticed that "quilt push -f" fails on patch files which have a header > > but no actual contents. This is because "patch" complains that it only > > found garbage in the patch, and returns with status 2. "quilt push" only > > honors option "-f" if patch returns with status 1. > > Patch fails if the patch file isn't completely empty, but with > only a header, it obviously isn't.
Correct. A totally empty file "works", but one with a header comment or even just a diffstat section fails. > > This change came with commit 031ed720 in the middle of other, apparently > > unrelated changes. All the commit message says is: "Fail pushes when GNU > > patch exits with a status > 1." But it doesn't say _why_ that change was > > made. > > I don't remember. If the other commits around this commit don't show > why, it probably wasn't critical. I couldn't find anything explaining the change in the surrounding commits, no. So I'll just revert it for now. Thanks for the quick reply. -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
