2012/11/23 Jean Delvare <address@hidden> > > Hi Andreas, > > I noticed that "quilt push -f" fails on patch files which have a header > but no actual contents. This is because "patch" complains that it only
> found garbage in the patch, and returns with status 2. "quilt push" only > honors option "-f" if patch returns with status 1.
Patch fails if the patch file isn't completely empty, but with only a header, it obviously isn't.
> This change came with commit 031ed720 in the middle of other, apparently > unrelated changes. All the commit message says is: "Fail pushes when GNU > patch exits with a status > 1." But it doesn't say _why_ that change was
> made.
I don't remember. If the other commits around this commit don't show why, it probably wasn't critical.