Re: [Quilt-dev] [PATCH] Sane permissions: no more mode 000 files

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Friday, 2. June 2006 00:28, Markus F.X.J. Oberhumer wrote:
> Several months ago I got burned _badly_ by those mode 000 files in the .pc
> directory, causing severe problems with a source tree after unnoticed
> failures from a preceding cp/tar.
>
> This patch is in use at our local systems for quite some time. Please
> review and apply if you find it useful.

Please try to get this fixed in GNU patch upstream if you care enough, then we 
can also change quilt. I agree that mode 0 is stupid, but it's something we 
have to live with.

Note that the diff (-z) and pop commands have workarounds for this problem as 
well; grep for "zero-size".

The problem you had with your backup scripts are/were a bug in those scripts; 
they should cope with this situation.

Andreas