On Thu, 14 Aug 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > There's no way to do an all-or-nothing patch, which is often > a huge requirement. Side note: there's a way to do a "nothing or nothing" thing, and then test the return value of whether the do-nothing was successful or not. So a reasonably common operation thing for scripting GNU patch is to literally do patch --dry-run first to see if the patch will succeed. ..or to play games with backup and reject files after-the-fact, of course. Linus -- 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
