On Friday, 2. June 2006 00:28, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote: > Several months ago I got burned _badly_ by those mode 000 files in the .pc > directory, causing severe problems with a source tree after unnoticed > failures from a preceding cp/tar. > > This patch is in use at our local systems for quite some time. Please > review and apply if you find it useful.
Please try to get this fixed in GNU patch upstream if you care enough, then we can also change quilt. I agree that mode 0 is stupid, but it's something we have to live with. Note that the diff (-z) and pop commands have workarounds for this problem as well; grep for "zero-size". The problem you had with your backup scripts are/were a bug in those scripts; they should cope with this situation. Andreas _______________________________________________ Quilt-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/quilt-dev
