CVSROOT: cvswrappers - treat patches as binary files

Patryk Zawadzki patrys at pld-linux.org
Wed Nov 5 21:32:35 CET 2008


On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:40 PM, Tomasz Pala <gotar at polanet.pl> wrote:
> ...and I don't argue with that from the very beginning. But it's the
> patch what is broken during dumb update (which can happen even without
> -l) thus I've suggested adding '-F 0' which enforces more checking, so
> that probability of passing old patches is reduced.
>
> The Question was: is there any case where _proper_ patch can do any
> damage applied this way?

Yes, if the offsets didn't change -F 0 wouldn't help at all.

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Patryk Zawadzki


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