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bug #25860: Patch --dry-run fails when a patch modifies files more than once

Submitter:	Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>
Submitted:	Sat 14 Mar 2009 02:07:41 PM UTC


Category:	None	Severity:	3 - Normal
Item Group:	None	Status:	Postponed
Privacy:	Public	Assigned to:	None
Open/Closed:	Open

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Mon 23 Dec 2019 12:43:48 PM UTC, comment #1:

Also, what is the correct behaviour when applying multiple patches in reverse (-R) (--dry-run or not)?

It seems logically necessary that hunks should be reversed from last to first, but POSIX doesn't address this as far as I can see. Presumably this has never worked on any patch implementation, so it's open to define the correct behaviour, or make it specifically undefined.

/df <dirkf>

Sat 14 Mar 2009 02:07:41 PM UTC, original submission:

When a patch modifies the same file more than once and the changes conflict, patch --dry-run will fail even for patches
which would apply without --dry-run.

Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen>

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