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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:15:39 -0700
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:03:15 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> 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...