Always attempt all patches, even if one fails

[dobesv]

It would be a convenience if patch-package would attempt to apply all patches, and report errors/success for every patch, rather than exiting immediately on the first failure.

Use Case

Sometimes an upstream package is updated to accept my patch, and the patch I have in our project becomes obsolete. In this case patch-package reports an error that the patch failed, and immediately exits. I can happily delete the patch file.

However, there is a catch: I have to re-run patch-package to ensure that any packages that would have been applied after the one that failed are applied. I pretty much always forget to do this, resulting in much confusion for me.

[ds300]

ah, sorry about the confusion!

Yeah that makes sense, it's a great improvement suggestion, thanks 🙏

[akwodkiewicz]

I also needed this behaviour (for me it was CI builds in monorepo project), so I pushed a proposal in PR #217.

[dobesv]

Another use case: when building for production, our dev dependencies are not present in node_modules. patch-package exits as soon as it fails to patch one of those dependencies due it not being there.

[dobesv]

@ds300 What do you think about merging the PR or coming up with a different solution?