Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tagline considered harmful?

[Tom Lord]

    > From: Jan Hudec <address@hidden>

    > > patch has -N:

    > >   -N  --forward  Ignore patches that appear to be reversed or already 
applied.

    > Thanks. It seems I am blind :-(.

    > If it works, could it become one of default options in arch? It would
    > help in star-merge a little bit.


That'd be actually pretty easy to work up a patch for if you're
interested.

The low-level function `run_patch' already excepts a flag that causes
`--forward' to patch.   It's a simple matter of propogating the
parameter up to arch_apply_changeset and back to the command line
options of various commands.

I prefer that it not be the default, but a --forward option to various
merging commands would be fine.

-t