unfuck_bk_patches.pl<\/a> which once run across a patch that includes new files, allows you to apply it using patch (or, for example, quilt).<\/p>\nI release it under the “sworn at software license”… which means you’re allowed to do anything you want with it as long as at some point you have sworn at computer software for being crappy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
So, if anybody is crazy enough to grab patches from the commits@lists.mysql.com list and try and use them… you may have run into this problem (which I do every few weeks\/months): new files aren’t created. 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