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Re: A problem with the patch utility and windows paths.


On Fri, 30 Sep 2005, Christopher Faylor wrote:

> [Ugh.  Duplicate response.  Duly noted.]

Yes, it is.  And within 5.5 minutes, no less.  Shouldn't there be a grace
period? :-)

> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:36:55AM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
                          ^^^^^^^^
> >If you're attempting to have patch interpret the paths in the patch
> >file then, as Eric said, you need to specify the "-p" option.  In the
> >above case, specifying "patch -p0 <1.tm" will cause old/file to be
> >patched. This is the case on both linux and cygwin.
>
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 10:42:13AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
                          ^^^^^^^^
> >You need to use "patch -p0 <1.tm".

FWIW, my response did ask the OP why he thought Windows paths were an
issue, as well as having a thinly veiled RTFM... :-)
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