fortran-experiments: patch for more error checking

Brooks Moses brooks.moses@codesourcery.com
Wed Jan 24 08:25:00 GMT 2007


Steve Kargl wrote:
> For whatever reason, my version of patch created 3 copies of the 
> bodies of the two testcases.  When I manually edited those file
> back to your intended tests everything worked out.  I commit the
> patch tonight.

FWIW, This is a common problem with the "patch" program and patches that 
contain new files.  If you apply the patch, it creates the new file, but 
if you reverse the patch, it doesn't delete it.  Then, if you re-apply 
the patch, it silently appends the contents of the "new" file to the end 
of the existing file.

I'm sort of surprised that this hasn't been considered a bug and fixed 
quite some time ago, but apparently it hasn't.

- Brooks



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