From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 4 16:19:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA10056 for current-outgoing; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:19:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id QAA09495 for ; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 16:14:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id RAA06436; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:14:31 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id RAA20381; Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:14:30 -0700 Date: Sun, 4 Jan 1998 17:14:30 -0700 Message-Id: <199801050014.RAA20381@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 To: =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= Cc: Nate Williams , FreeBSD-current Subject: Re: New patch: one thing to think about In-Reply-To: References: <199801042354.QAA20276@mt.sri.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id QAA09496 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > > =?KOI8-R?B?4c7E0sXKIP7F0s7P1w==?= writes: > > > On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Андрей Чернов wrote: > > > > > > > To say it simple, no *.orig files created now unless you specify > > > > -b option. > > > > > > Oops, not so simple. No *.orig created only if patch applies _cleanly_, > > > if something is rejected, *.orig created by default. > > > > Ahh, never mind my previous reply then, unless it doesn't create a patch > > if there are fuzz problems or otherwise. Sometimes I've had patches > > 'apply cleanly' when in fact the fuzz factor caused them to patch > > completely wrong parts of the system. > > Backup created for 'fuzz' too by default. Only _completely_ clean patches > goes without backup. > > -- > Andrey A. Chernov Cool, I don't mind the default behavior, since you can always back it out then with the original patch file. Nate