[BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)

Andreas Schwab schwab at linux-m68k.org
Fri Sep 3 15:45:37 EDT 2010


Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig at 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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