[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When using "diff -urN" to create a patch, if a file no longer exists, then the date in the diff heading is reset to 0, and the contents of the file are removed by the diff. When the "patch" command sees that the date has been reset, it knows to remove the file rather than just leaving an empty file. Here's an example:Could you resubmit this patch with a test case, as per the HACKING file in the top level of the source distribution?
diff -urN test-1.0/mytext.txt test-1.3/mytext.txt
--- test-1.0/mytext.txt Mon May 8 14:22:28 2000
+++ test-1.3/mytext.txt Wed Dec 31 19:00:00 1969
cvs rdiff doesn't do this. It always sets the timestamp from the RCS file. So, you can't remove files using patches made by cvs rdiff. This is a pain.
Here's my patch:
Thanks,
Derek
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