Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 3 Mar 2001 14:34:10 -0500 (EST) | From | Alexander Viro <> | Subject | Re: simple question about patches |
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On Sat, 3 Mar 2001, Alan Cox wrote:
> > Long ago, pre* and ac* patches were rare. Patches went from one > > Umm wrong. -ac patches for 2.2 regularly did one a day > > > line-by-line before the next one came out. Patches always applied > > easily with the (pre-POSIX?) patch command. Version numbers made > > patch is Larry Wall > > > Pre-patches go like this: > > > > 200 kB (great: read the patch) > > 200 kB + 200 kB of old stuff you already read (ugh, read 1/2 of it) > > 200 kB + 400 kB of old stuff you already read (too boring) > > Of course people with at least one functioning braincell read the differences > between the two patches, or pick up the patch between the two (handily > maintained on www.bzimage.org for the Linux 2.4ac series)
... or do something along the lines cp -rl S2 S2-ac10 bzip2 -d <patch-2.4.2-ac10.bz2 | (cd S2-ac10 && patch -p1 -E) diff -urN S2-ac{9,10} | tee delta-9-10 | less Cheers, Al
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