On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:03:15 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 17:49, Andrew Morton wrote: > > I guess one could try `patch -p1' and if that failed, `patch -p1 -u'. > > Hmm, I'll think about that, thanks. > > > But the problem is that patch will get stuck in interactive mode prompting > > for a filename. I've never actually worked how to make patch(1) just fail > > rather than going interactive, not that I've tried terribly hard. Any > > hints there? > > Patch -f will turn off those questions. > darnit, both `-f' and `-t' work. Sigh. I blame the manpage: too long ;) Incidentally, the offending patch (http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/git-scsi-misc.patch) sends patch(1) into an infinite loop with `patch -p1 -f' and `patch -p1 -t'. Presumably it will do the same when that patch is offered to quilt... - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
