Hi Jean, 2018-04-06 9:37 GMT+02:00 Jean Delvare <jdelv...@suse.de>: > Hi Andreas, > > What was the rationale for this commit? > > commit 19ce60a19ac87230e05603e2ca31030d8b3143ad > Author: Andreas Gruenbacher > Date: Tue Mar 25 23:15:37 2008 +0000 > > - Assume patches are in unified format by default when applying > them. (For working with other patch formats, make sure to remove > "--unified" from QUILT_PATCH_OPTS in ~/.quiltrc or > /etc/quilt.quiltrc.) > > GNU patch should detect the format of patch files automatically. Having > --unified passed unconditionally by default breaks the use of quilt > with other patch formats. I just received a bug report about it: > > https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1088281 > > I am just discovering about that default setting in /etc/quilt.quiltrc, > I had no idea it was there. In fact I'm surprised nobody complained > about it before. Most probably this is because ~/.quiltrc > overrides /etc/quilt.quiltrc completely and many quilt users have such > a file (including myself.) > > Can we please remove this setting and just let GNU patch detect patch > formats?
I don't remember why this was made the default in /etc/quilt.quiltrc. This should be safe to change. Thanks, Andreas _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list Quilt-dev@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
