Re: [RFC] patch's default backup behavior

Am Fri, Apr 08, 2022 at 10:25:08PM -0500 schrieb Kyle Evans:
> I'd like to test the waters on switching this to the GNU behavior,
> which feels a whole lot more reasonable. Notably, they'll only create
> backup files if a mismatch was detected (presumably this means either
> a hunk needed fuzz or a hunk outright failed). This yields far fewer
> backup files in the ideal scenario (context entirely matches), while
> still leaving backup files when it's sensible (base file changed and
> we might want to regenerate the patch).
> 
> Thoughts / comments / concerns?

Personally, I'm more often annoyed by the GNU behavior than not.
Especially when working on pkgsrc, the GNU behavior of
sometimes-not-creating-backups actually breaks tooling. I also consider
the rationale somewhat fishy as tools like sed have historically not
operated in-place.

Joerg