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Re: Why doesn't git-apply remove empty file

From
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Aug 14, 2008, 20:02 UTC
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<alpine.LFD.1.10.0808141258180.3324@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
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On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>   There's no way to do an all-or-nothing patch, which is often 
>    a huge requirement.

Side note: there's a way to do a "nothing or nothing" thing, and then test the return value of whether the do-nothing was successful or not.

So a reasonably common operation thing for scripting GNU patch is to literally do

	patch --dry-run
first to see if the patch will succeed.
..or to play games with backup and reject files after-the-fact, of course.
			Linus
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