Re: [RFC] patch's default backup behavior

On Sun, 10 Apr 2022 10:21:56 -0500
Kyle Evans <kevans@freebsd.org> wrote:

> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 5:33 AM Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> wrote:
[big SNIP]
> > I checked POSIX 2018, apparently the backup files (.orig) are only
> > required if -b is given, so omitting them would seem fine to me, and the
> > rationale section suggests that for consistency with other utilities,
> > the default would be to NOT save .orig file, but the -b option can be
> > used to request them being written (but then consistently on all files
> > not just those without rejects - also because there is no working patch
> > -R for ed-style diffs.).  
> 
> I'd actually be OK with that, too, to an extent.
> 

Please do not change the behavior of the -b flag!  I make patches to
/usr/src/ to eliminate things I don't want compiled in when I run
buildkernel and buildworld and then move the resulting .orig backups
to the original file names to eliminate those changes.

-- 
Gary Jennejohn