Re: [PATCH v3 2/9] liblockdep: Wrap kernel/lockdep.c to allow usage from userspace

[Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>]

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
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You may redistribute copies of this program
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