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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: patch: request for feature
Message-ID: <3400@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 24 Oct 88 18:09:57 GMT
Article-I.D.: jpl-devv.3400
References: <168@libove.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <168@libove.UUCP> root@libove.UUCP (Jay M. Libove) writes:
: One feature that would be a nice addition to the "patch" software, which
: is already one of the most useful pieces of software I have ever seen,
: thanks Larry! - would be an option to pause on patch rejection, so that
: the executing user would be made explicitly aware of what went wrong,
: or better yet a logfile option to log failed patches, putting the bad
: patch, the source file name, in the logfile.
: 
: What do you all think? Larry, you out there?

Hi, just got back from England...

I think you could do most of that right now by wrapping it in a shell script
that checks the status and looks for reject files.

Larry Wall
lwall@jpl-devvax.jpl.nasa.gov