Tony wrote:

> On 22/07/14 10:57, Bram Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> > Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz wrote:
> >
> >> Could someone fix 7.4.356  patch that sits on vim ftp? It tries to patch
> >> .hgignore file which doesn't exist in released tarballs.
> >
> > OK, let's do the same as for the other patch that changes .hgignore.
> >
> >> Thanks!
> >>
> >> ps. would be nice to enhance whatever script creates these patches to avoid
> >> this mistake in future since it is not the first time it happens
> >
> > Well, only the second time.  It's not so easy to automate.
> >
> 
> Would it be so hard to identify and remove any patch for a file whose 
> name starts with, let's say, .hg (dot-aich-gee)? Or should we watch out 
> for other "special" files?

You don't want to drop the patch but only remove the part that changes
the .hgignore file.

> Of course if there are other files patched in the same diff, they should 
> be kept; and if there is no change at all to version.c (and thus no 
> patch number) I suppose the whole changeset can be omitted from the FTP 
> server — or can it?

Not sure, depends on what script you use to patch.

Anyway, I rely on people to tell me about things that don't work and
then fix them.  In practice it doesn't happen very often.

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