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diff --git a/doc/quilt.1.in b/doc/quilt.1.in index 9337088..b7c6549 100644 --- a/doc/quilt.1.in +++ b/doc/quilt.1.in @@ -189,7 +189,16 @@ Additional options that quilt shall pass to GNU patch when applying patches. For example, recent versions of GNU patch support the "--reject-format=unified" option for generating reject files in unified diff style (older patch versions used "--unified-reject-files" for that). - + +You may also want to add the "-E" option if you have issues with quilt +not deleting empty files when you think it should. The documentation of +GNU patch says that "normally this option is unnecessary", but when patch +is in POSIX mode or if the patch format doesn't allow to distinguish +empty files from deleted files, patch deletes empty files only if the +-E option is given. Beware that when passing -E to patch, quilt will +no longer be able to deal with empty files, which is why using -E is +no longer the default. + .IP QUILT_DIFFSTAT_OPTS 4 Additional options that quilt shall pass to diffstat when generating |