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(probably dumb) Question: Is there a task to remove patches after they've been applied

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript
Domain
tooling

Research direction

Start by reading the grunt patch:<some_url> task and checking how it applies a remote patch without retaining a local file. Determine whether a reverse operation can be defined and what state or patch data it would require; done means documenting or implementing a reliable way to undo an applied remote patch.

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Description

Normally I'd do something like patch -p0 -R < patch_file_path.patch but if I'm using the (really rather brilliant) grunt patch:<some_url> then I don't have the file locally in order to undo that... do I?

Dominant language
JavaScript
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Forks
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