Subject: Re: [BUG?] rename patch accepted with --dry-run, rejected without (Re: [PATCH V3] arm & sh: factorised duplicated clkdev.c)

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2010 21:45:37 +0200

Uwe Kleine-König <[email-masked]> writes:

> Still GNU patch should then already fail in --dry-run mode.

Since --dry-run doesn't actually perform any changes it can easily be
fooled when a file is patched twice.

Andreas.

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