On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 11:01:03AM +0000, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > So? Why *STOP* reading the mails if just one of the directories could > > > not be opened? IOW, I suggest: > > > > Because you are then trying to apply a patch series with some patches > > potentially missing? Continuing only on errno == ENOENT seems prudent. > > I fail to see how the absence of one of cur/ or new/ can lead to the > absence of patches. You could forget to save some patches, yes, but the > presence of cur/ and new/ is no indicator for that. Read my message again. Alex is proposing ignoring errors in opening the directories; I am proposing ignoring such errors _only_ when the error is that the directory does not exist. IOW, if there is some other error in opening the directory, it should be fatal, because you might be missing patches. -Peff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
