It would be nice if svn-apply had an option to skip all changes to ChangeLog files, for use when not planning to commit after application. The specific case I am thinking of that this would help with is the following scenario: - The user is using git-svn (not sure if this happens with pure SVN) - There are two ChangeLog entries in a row with the same header - The user neglected to `git-svn rebase` or `svn up` before generating the patch In this case, git will generate a patch that looks something like this: 2016-04-14 John Doe <johndoe@webkit.org> + + Enhance interface foo with bar. + + Reviewed By: NOBODY (OOPS). + + This change does something + +2016-04-14 John Doe <johndoe@webkit.org> Some other change that happens to be by John Doe. The behavior of svn-apply, which is to attempt to patch the ChangeLog with `patch --fuzz=3`, will not be sufficient, since a fuzz value of 3 will not work with this patch if HEAD has a completely different ChangeLog entry at the top.
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Created attachment 276519 [details] patch Adds an option to svn-apply to not apply changes to ChangeLog files.
Comment on attachment 276519 [details] patch Seems OK. I would have put this logic inside the existing ChangeLog section below, but I suppose that would have missed deleted and added change logs. But how common are those?
Committed r199674. http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/199674