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From: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
To: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
	"Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
	Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Sean Bruno <sean.bruno@dsl-only.net>,
	Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>,
	Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	David Brown <dmlb2000@gmail.com>,
	Puneet Vyas <vyas.puneet@gmail.com>,
	Richard Hubbell <richard.hubbell@gmail.com>,
	webmaster@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2005 01:56:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050803235639.GC6223@linuxtv.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200508032328.07727.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>

On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 Jesper Juhl wrote:
> +How do I feed a patch/diff file to `patch'?
> +---
> + This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be
> +done in several different ways.
> +In all the examples below I feed the file (in uncompressed form) to patch
> +via stdin using the following syntax:
> +	patch -p1 < path/to/patch-x.y.z

I think you should mention the -s flag. Given the size of an
average kernel patch it is otherwise very likely that errors scroll
away unnoticed.

OTOH you might also want to add a mention of lsdiff and diffstat.

Johannes

  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-03 23:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-02 21:32 Documentation - how to apply patches for various trees Jesper Juhl
2005-08-02 22:38 ` Randy.Dunlap
2005-08-03  1:05 ` Richard Hubbell
2005-08-03  2:00 ` Puneet Vyas
2005-08-03  6:40 ` Rolf Eike Beer
2005-08-03 14:44   ` Randy.Dunlap
     [not found]     ` <200508032251.07996.jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
2005-08-03 21:08       ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-03 21:28         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-03 23:56           ` Johannes Stezenbach [this message]
2005-08-04  0:33           ` Grant Coady
2005-08-04  7:44           ` Rolf Eike Beer
2005-08-05 22:52         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-03 21:46       ` Bodo Eggert
2005-08-03 23:19         ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-03 11:50 ` Pavel Machek

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