Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:56:39 +0200 | From | Johannes Stezenbach <> | Subject | Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees |
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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 Jesper Juhl wrote: > +How do I feed a patch/diff file to `patch'? > +--- > + This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be > +done in several different ways. > +In all the examples below I feed the file (in uncompressed form) to patch > +via stdin using the following syntax: > + patch -p1 < path/to/patch-x.y.z
I think you should mention the -s flag. Given the size of an average kernel patch it is otherwise very likely that errors scroll away unnoticed.
OTOH you might also want to add a mention of lsdiff and diffstat.
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