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From: Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>
To: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>, deepak <dxbadami@wichita.edu>
Subject: Re: patch
Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 08:33:20 +0100
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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.