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Re: How to apply a patch?



Hi,

alephtnull@gmx.net wrote:

> even if you don't redirect it using < or |..it *still* gets patched right?
> that was what happened to me when I tried to reapply the patch using the |
> operator telling me that there was already a previous patch detected...

No, if there's no input on stdin, nothing will get patched, because
"patch" doesn't get any commands.


> on a side note, how do you unpatch a wrong patch? using patch -R does work?
> but it keeps asking per source file if you want to continue or not and
> there's a lot of source files....my fingers are already worned out and I'm still
> not even half-way done...

I guess it's just a dirty hack, but I think switching the directory
names and then apply the patch normally should do it?

Cheers, 
Viktor
-- 
Viktor Rosenfeld
WWW: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~rosenfel/

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