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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, deepak <dxbadami@wichita.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: patch
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:33:20 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211190833.20443.baldrick@wanadoo.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L.0211182119470.4103-100000@imladris.surriel.com>

On Tuesday 19 November 2002 00:20, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, deepak wrote:
> > how do i uninstall a patch
>
> $ man patch
> ...
>        -R  or  --reverse
>           Assume that this patch was created with the old and new
>           files swapped.  (Yes, I'm afraid that does happen occa­
>           sionally,  human  nature  being  what  it  is.)   patch
>           attempts  to  swap each hunk around before applying it.
>           Rejects come out in the swapped format.  The -R  option
> 	  ...
>
> Next time you should read the man page yourself ;)

Come on, be fair.  This text is pretty obscure.  If you didn't know so
already, would you understand from it that -R undoes a patch?

Duncan.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-19  8:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-18 23:07 patch deepak
2002-11-18 23:20 ` patch Rik van Riel
2002-11-19  7:33   ` Duncan Sands [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2010-05-04 16:48 patch Kristoffer Ericson
2013-11-22 16:35 Patch Arthur Schwalbenberg
2013-11-22 17:36 ` Patch Levente Kurusa
2013-11-25  8:58   ` Patch Daniel Vetter

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