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From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:03:15 +0200
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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.

Andreas