Re: Htree directory index for Ext2, updated

[Daniel Phillips <phillips@bonn-fries.net>]

On Friday 17 May 2002 06:22, Albert D. Cahalan wrote:
> > After learning to my horror that gnu patch will, if a patch was made to be 
> > applied with option -p0, sometimes apply patches to your 'clean' tree (the 
> > one with the ---'s) instead of the target tree (the one with the +++'s) I 
> > decided to switch to -p1, and that is how this patch is to be applied.
> 
> The worst thing is that gnu patch will make
> this decision on a per-file basis, so you
> can't then back out the changes with -R.
> 
> Do like this:
> 
> diff -Naurd old new
> 
> IMPORTANT: the directory names should have
> the same number of characters in them.

Why is that?

> Do not try something like:
> 
> diff -Naurd bad idea
> diff -Naurd doomed 2fail
> 
> Don't use "linux" for a name. Don't use
> anything Linus might use. Pick your own
> equal-length directory names, and don't
> distribute tarballs containing them.
> This prevents source-destroying disasters.

I think you're saying that patch is broken by design.  And what's the standard 
argument for not fixing it?

-- 
Daniel