Re: [Quilt-dev] Does anyone know why ...

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thursday, 02 March 2006 07:25, Peter Williams wrote:
> ... "quilt files <patch>" produces empty output when <patch> is not
> applied?  Was this a deliberate design decision?  If so what was the
> logic behind it?

The current version of quilt will tell you that the specified patch is not 
applied; it doesn't fail silently.

Quilt won't try to list the files that an unapplied patch touches because this 
can't be done very well: GNU patch uses complicated heuristics to decide 
which filename it will patch (see Multiple Patches in a File in the diff info 
pages). You can use utilities like lsdiff for that purpose, but lsdiff will 
also guess wrong for some patches.

Andreas