Re: [bug-patch] fuzz calculation change between patch 2.5.9 and 2.6

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Monday 23 November 2009 17:31:35 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Monday 23 November 2009 10:45:05 Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> > On Monday 23 November 2009 04:07:02 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > > with patch-2.5.9 and older, you'll get an error (since the files in
> > > question are missing).  with patch-2.6, the patch will "apply".
> > 
> > The patch has three lines of context and with -F3, up to three lines of
> > context are ignored.  The result will be rather random, but I think it
> >  could be argued that based on the line numbers, patch should assume that
> >  the files must exist.
> 
> yes, i'm not saying the application method is sane (i plan on having the
> code using this changed), but i dont think the patch should have succeeded
> in this case since there are lines matching but the files dont exist

Commit e2218ac fixed this bug as well.

Thanks,
Andreas