Hi Andreas, Thanks for the quick reply.
On Tue, 25 Feb 2014 15:19:16 +0100, Andreas Grünbacher wrote: > Am 25.02.2014 14:24 schrieb "Jean Delvare" <[email protected]>: > > GNU patch is unable to deal with patch headers without timestamps if > > a file name includes a space. Quilt currently generates such patches > > if $QUILT_NO_DIFF_TIMESTAMPS is defined. > > > > In order to work around this limitation and always generate patches > > that GNU patch will be able to apply, add a tab and a dash after the > > file name in the patch header if $QUILT_NO_DIFF_TIMESTAMPS is set and > > the file name contains a space. > > Please no, let's fix patch instead. Well, I reported the problem to the bug-patch list 2 weeks ago: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-patch/2014-02/msg00000.html But I didn't get any reply. So at this point I have no idea if it is actually considered a bug in GNU patch, or a limitation of the unified patch format. Do you know is this format is officially specified somewhere, BTW? That would be useful in such cases, to figure out what would be considered the correct behavior. I can't wait forever for the GNU patch developers to reply, which is why I came up with this workaround. If the problem is ever fixed in GNU patch, I'll be more than happy to remove the workaround. Thanks, -- Jean Delvare Suse L3 Support _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
