From: "Laszlo Boszormenyi (GCS)" <gcs@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 14 May 2022 02:38:24 +0800
Subject: backupmode

---
 patch.man | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/patch.man b/patch.man
index e919eae..24dc152 100644
--- a/patch.man
+++ b/patch.man
@@ -260,9 +260,6 @@ mentioned previously.
 Make backup files.
 That is, when patching a file,
 rename or copy the original instead of removing it.
-When backing up a file that does not exist,
-an empty, unreadable backup file is created
-as a placeholder to represent the nonexistent file.
 See the
 .B \-V
 or
