On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 08:54:13PM +0100, Mattias Andrée wrote: > Hi! > > I'm working on implementing patch(1). I'm thinking about > introducing an extension to the standard: -w. When this > flag is used, patch will verify that the patchfile only > changes whitespace in the file. > > So I have 2 question. > > 1) Do you think this should be a flag or a separate tool?
Sounds like it could be a flag. > > 2) Should it be able to do a dry run, would be another flag > that can be used independently of -w? Yes it would be nice to support a dry run flag regardless of whether -w is specified or not.
