Re: [RFC] patch's default backup behavior

On 2022-04-08 20:25, Kyle Evans wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> FreeBSD's patch follows historical patch(1) behavior w.r.t. backups,
> where a backup is created for every file patched.
> 
> 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?

This makes good sense to me too.
Yes. Please && Thanks.

> Cross-posted this to a couple of
> different lists to try and hit the largest number of stakeholders in
> patch(1) behavior.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kyle Evans
l8r,
Chris