Re: [Quilt-dev] Why does quilt create files with 000 perms?

[Raphael Hertzog]

On Sun, 22 Nov 2009, Andreas Gruenbacher wrote:
> On Sunday 22 November 2009 15:47:58 Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > I would like to know the rationale behind the fact that quilt creates
> > empty files with 000 perms when patches create new files. It's annoying
> > because you can't "cp -a" the whole directory containing .pc.
> 
> This is what GNU patch did for new files until version 2.6, and it has been 
> fixed meanwhile.  Thanks for the reminder; I have fixed this in quilt as well 
> just now.

You might want to fix the patch documentation in that case, the manual
page in 2.6 seems to still say that unreadable files are created:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/patch.git/tree/patch.man

Cheers,
-- 
Raphaël Hertzog