Re: 2.6.22-rc4-mm1

Matt Mackall
2007-06-07T14:10:19Z

On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 02:51:58PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
> >> Maybe there's something wrong with ketchup. ;(
> >
> >Can you do an 'lsdiff | grep lguest' on the patch in your ~/.ketchup directory?
> >
> >Ketchup simply applies patches, it never touches filenames directly.
> >So for something to go wrong here and drop a file in the tree with a
> >damaged pathname, you've either got a damaged patch, a bug in patch
> >itself, or some form of filesystem corruption.
>
> Thanks for your point.
>
> It should be Documentation/lguest/lguest.c, maybe it was corrupted and ketchup
> backuped it as mlguest.c.

It'd be interesting to figure out how that happened, still.

If your patch file is intact (are you using GPG's signature-checking
support?), the most likely explanation is an operating system or
filesystem bug.

Can you reproduce it?

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