Re: [Quilt-dev] chmod 000 files in .pc directory

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Friday 22 April 2005 19:18, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> Quilt currently sometimes seems to create mode 000 files in the .pc
> directory (with "quilt add" ??), which is very bad for backups.
>
> Could the mode of these file changed to a more sensible value ?

Unfortunately, no. GNU patch creates these mode 0 files as backup for files 
that it creates, so that it can tell an empty file from a non-existent file. 
Not that this would really help, but it's legacy behavior. Quilt simply 
behaves the same way as GNU patch would do.

Regards,
Andreas.