From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 19:45:37 GMT
Subject: Re: [BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)
Message-ID: <m2r5ha7gri.fsf@igel.home>
In-Reply-To: <20100903193309.GC29821@pengutronix.de>

Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig@pengutronix.de> writes:

> Still GNU patch should then already fail in --dry-run mode.

Since --dry-run doesn't actually perform any changes it can easily be
fooled when a file is patched twice.

Andreas.

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