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Re: patch and CVS
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: patch and CVS |
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Mon, 24 Sep 2001 19:49:08 +0200 |
On 24 Sep 2001, Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> Carlo Wood <address@hidden> wrote:
> > Diffs generated by 'cvs diff' are unuable with patch, and have been
> > for many years. Why is this never fixed?
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> Unless I remember my own experience incorrectly, it already is fixed.
> For a long while, actually. It's called the '-p' option of patch.
> "cvs diff" output usually needs "patch -p0".
Actually, I'd advise to _always_ use the -pN option when invoking Patch
versions 2.4 and later.