Re: Should cg-mkpatch output be usable with cg-patch?

[Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>]

Dear diary, on Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 07:50:18PM CEST, I got a letter
where Wolfgang Denk <wd@denx.de> told me that...
> In message <20050722210352.GG11916@pasky.ji.cz> you wrote:
> >
> > > I wander what I should do with "cg-mkpatch" generated output;  I  had
> > > the  impression that this should be usable with "cg-patch", but these
> > > are incompatible with each other.
> > 
> > They certainly aren't.
> 
> Is this a problem with the current implementation, or intentional?

Implementation. Should be fixed now, after rewriting part of it. ;-)

> > The message is surely confusing, but appeared to be rather corner-casy
> > and after I imagined the required complexity of filtering this, I
> > decided to spend my time on something more useful for the time being. :)
> 
> I don't think this is a corner case. I think it is  pretty  important
> to be able to promote permissiong changes.

Of course. By the corner case I meant "the external patch tool invoked
by cg-patch emits bogus error in case of patch containing only mode
changes and nothing else". I wasn't aware that the changes wouldn't
apply at all - actually, I was when I was writing the code, but
completely forgot about it later.

Thanks,

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