Mercurial > hg > toybox
changeset 225:b4ec652305df
A bit more documentation on Patch.
author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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date | Sat, 05 Jan 2008 18:08:17 -0600 |
parents | 37eb3153403f |
children | 6aac63925eff |
files | toys/Config.in |
diffstat | 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/toys/Config.in Sat Jan 05 16:40:40 2008 -0600 +++ b/toys/Config.in Sat Jan 05 18:08:17 2008 -0600 @@ -286,8 +286,11 @@ -R Reverse patch. -u Ignored (only handles "unified" diffs) - If a hunk fails to apply to a file, patch discards all changes to - that file and prints the failed hunk to stderr. + This version of patch only handles unified diffs, and only modifies + a file when all all hunks to that file apply. Patch prints failed + hunks to stderr, and exits with nonzero status if any hunks fail. + + A file compared against /dev/null is created/deleted as appropriate. config PWD bool "pwd"