Re: [bug-patch] [PATCH][bug #26148] Always default value of GET_PATCH to zero.

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Monday, 13 April 2009 8:24:13 Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > Make the "posixly-correct" behaviour of not using source
> > control, the global patch default. I.e. default to "-g0".
>
> agree completely.  we've had reports in Gentoo about this misbehavior and
> it's caused us problems indeterminately as well due to user environments.
> -mike

I cannot read out of POSIX why the default for PATCH_GET is 0 when 
POSIXLY_CORRECT is set, but I agree that it should be 0 at least in 
the "posixly-incorrect" case. I've added Vincent's patch. Thank you!

(I believe that adding SCM support to patch was a mistake, but that doesn't
 really help now.)

Andreas