I think I understand the manual text now. I read it as create numbered
files only if the backup file exists, but I now see it can be read as
create numbered files only if other numbered files already exist. I
think "have them" is unclear. Maybe the text should be clarified to:
Make
Sorry, but I disagree and think this is a bug in Debian 11, GNU patch
2.7.6. -b forces a backup file, and the manual says of "-V existing":
Make numbered backups of files that already have them, otherwise
simple backups. This is the default.
This example shows that the first patch
I looked at the documentation and the examples provided here and they
are working as documented. I don't think there is a bug here.
Now, in theory, it might be nice to have a flag which prevents old .orig
files from being overwritten. I can see how that would be beneficial.
But the examples
simple example:
==
me@ant(15)~/tmp$ cat a
a
me@ant(16)~/tmp$ cat b
a\nb
me@ant(17)~/tmp$ echo a b
me@ant(18)~/tmp$ echo b b
me@ant(19)~/tmp$ cat a
a
me@ant(20)~/tmp$ cat b
a
b
me@ant(21)~/tmp$ diff -C 3 a b
*** a 2011-02-17 02:27:51.0 -0500
--- b 2011-02-17
Package: patch
Version: 2.6-3
Severity: normal
hello,
the following description in the manpage says (below), but
when using patch -b and not specifying -V, it clobbers the .orig
file instead of using the numbered or t method as explained
as the default. from the description i was expecting a
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