Re: [Quilt-dev] handling empty new files

[Jean Delvare]

Hi Joe,

[Joe Green]
> However, it doesn't look like diff or patch will support creating an 
> empty file in one step.  Diff won't generate the output for an empty 
> file, and patch won't accept it if I cobble it up by hand, using what
> I think would be the correct syntax.  It seems a bit odd that patch
> would only implement part of the solution, but I wasn't able to find
> a way to make it work.

Yup, that's the problem, and the reason why I stated Jerome's problem
couldn't be easily addressed.

I am still wondering what you folks are using empty files for ;)

-- 
Jean Delvare