In the general case, when doing a backup copy of a patch on refresh,
the modification time of the file is preserved. We should do the same
when the patch is a symbolic link.
---
quilt/refresh.in | 2 +-
test/symlink.test | 3 +++
2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/quilt/refresh.in
+++ b/quilt/refresh.in
@@ -326,7 +326,7 @@ then
elif ( [ -z "$QUILT_BACKUP" -o ! -e "$patch_file" ] || \
if [ -L "$patch_file" ] ; \
then \
- cp "$patch_file" "$patch_file~"; \
+ cp -p "$patch_file" "$patch_file~"; \
else \
mv "$patch_file" "$patch_file~"; \
fi ) && \
--- a/test/symlink.test
+++ b/test/symlink.test
@@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
# Test the refresh --backup
$ echo "foo changed 3" > foo
+ $ touch -r patches/test.diff test.timeref
$ quilt refresh --backup --no-index -p ab
> Refreshed patch patches/test.diff
@@ -52,6 +53,8 @@
> -foo
> +foo changed 2
+ $ [ patches/test.diff~ -nt test.timeref ] && echo "mtimes differ"
+
# Test the refresh when target is read-only
$ chmod -w test.diff
$ echo "foo changed 4" > foo
--
Jean Delvare
SUSE L3 Support
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