Hi,

A test case in Monotone tries to apply a patch to an empty file in
reverse form.  This works OK with GNU patch (2.5.9) but fails with
ours.  Consider the following commands which illustrate the problem:

$ echo 1 >foo.old
$ echo 2 >>foo.old
$ touch foo
$ diff -u foo.old foo >patch.diff
$ patch -p0 -R <patch.diff
Hmm...  Looks like a unified diff to me...
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|--- foo.old    2006-08-22 10:55:49.000000000 +0200
|+++ foo        2006-08-22 10:55:49.000000000 +0200
--------------------------
Patching file foo using Plan A...
Hunk #1 failed at 1.
1 out of 1 hunks failed--saving rejects to foo.rej
done

Is this a bug in our patch?  Or there is nothing that requires it to
behave this way?

Thanks.

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Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv84@gmail.com>
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