From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 12:50:06 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: Make ediff offer to create files it's inferring
X-Git-Tag: emacs-28.0.90~4826
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c9c8d98446f7cd4c9e0eb7394c7f9039965932c7;p=emacs.git

Make ediff offer to create files it's inferring

* lisp/vc/ediff-ptch.el (ediff-fixup-patch-map): Offer to create
the inferred file name (if it doesn't exist) (bug#8009).  This allows
applying a patch that creates a file.
---

diff --git a/lisp/vc/ediff-ptch.el b/lisp/vc/ediff-ptch.el
index 08640fcece9..580d48880bd 100644
--- a/lisp/vc/ediff-ptch.el
+++ b/lisp/vc/ediff-ptch.el
@@ -465,6 +465,9 @@ are two possible targets for this %spatch.  However, these files do not exist."
 				     file1 file2 (if multi-patch-p "multi-" ""))))
 		    (princ "
 \nPlease enter an alternative patch target ...\n"))
+                  (when (and (string= file1 file2)
+                             (y-or-n-p (format "Create %s?" file1)))
+                    (write-region (point-min) (point-min) file1))
 		  (let ((directory t)
 			target)
 		    (while directory