On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 09:23:33AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote: > Wait, I'm confused. Over here, patch is fine with creating empty files: > > lappy lockdep # touch test.c > lappy lockdep # git diff /dev/null test.c > test.patch > lappy lockdep # rm test.c > lappy lockdep # file test.c > test.c: ERROR: cannot open `test.c' (No such file or directory) > lappy lockdep # patch -i test.patch > patching file test.c > lappy lockdep # file test.c > test.c: empty > lappy lockdep # cat test.patch > diff --git a/tools/lib/lockdep/test.c b/tools/lib/lockdep/test.c > new file mode 100644 > index 0000000..e69de29 > lappy lockdep # > > So it seems that here patch would cleanly create empty files, what does quilt > do differently?
root@twins:~/tmp# touch ponies root@twins:~/tmp# git diff /dev/null ponies diff --git a/ponies b/ponies new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 root@twins:~/tmp# git diff /dev/null ponies > ponies.patch root@twins:~/tmp# rm ponies root@twins:~/tmp# patch < ponies.patch patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input. t@twins:~/tmp# patch --version patch 2.6.1 Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall Copyright (C) 2003, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This program comes with NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. You may redistribute copies of this program under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING. written by Larry Wall and Paul Eggert -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
