Re: [Quilt-dev] why create new backup file with no permission?

[Yasushi SHOJI]

At Thu, 19 Aug 2004 14:18:18 +0200,
Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 2004-08-19 at 13:45, Yasushi SHOJI wrote:

[...]

> > comments in backup-files.c reads: because gnu patch is doing as
> > well. quick test on my local machine didn't show that gnu patch create
> > new file without permissions.
> 
> Do this to verify:
> 
> $ quilt refresh
> Refreshed patch foo.diff
> $ quilt pop
> Removing patch foo.diff
> Removing foo.txt
> 
> No patches applied
> $ patch --backup --prefix=backup/ < patches/foo.diff
> patching file foo.txt
> $ ls -l backup
> ----------  1 [...] foo.txt

ah, i see.

> > anyway, would you apply the attached patch if there is no reason for
> > the current behaviour?
> 
> There is a reason for the current behavior.

thank you for clarifying.

best,
--
           yashi