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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] NEW: --forward options (alternative to --skip-prese
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Robert Collins |
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] NEW: --forward options (alternative to --skip-present) |
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Sun, 21 Sep 2003 07:58:49 +1000 |
On Sun, 2003-09-21 at 07:44, Tom Lord wrote:
> Another new option: --forward (aka -N) to various merging commands.
>
> As with `patch(1)', --forward means "ignore hunks that appear to
> already have been applied".
>
> Thus, this is a (superior, I think) alternative to --skip-present.
I can certainly see it being an alternative, but as it's underpinnings
are fundamentally different, I'm sure it's inferior.
Simple case:
How will it handle double-application of a patch into a tree where
function names used in the patch have changed?
(Not that I object to it's presence, the more power in the tools, the
better, just it the characterisation that it's superior, when it
-cannot- handle the scenarios skip-present was designed for....)
Rob
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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] NEW: --forward options (alternative to --skip-present), Miles Bader, 2003/09/20
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] NEW: --forward options (alternative to --skip-present), Miles Bader, 2003/09/20