On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:37:03PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 13:25, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> On Sat, Nov 03, 2001 at 01:15:54PM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: >> >On Sat, 2001-11-03 at 13:03, Christopher Faylor wrote: >> >>Couldn't the patch remove itself? >> > >> >Not if you create the patch via diff! >> >> Why? The patch could patch itself into a zero length file and the file >> could be removed via "patch -E". > >To make the patch a zero length file, the entire contents need to be >listed with a - before each line right? > >so how long is a file that completely contains itself?
Yep. You're right. If the patch was constructed from diff and if there was only one file, you couldn't have the patch delete itself. cgf
