On Friday 29 June 2007 07:44, Uwe Grauer wrote:
> johnf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I guess I'm dumb because I don't know how to use a patch file that others
> > have posted to tracker. Could someone provide the steps to get the patch
> > into my code for testing.
>
> patch -p0 < patchfile
>
> from the man page:
> -pnum or --strip=num
> Strip the smallest prefix containing num leading slashes from
> each file name found in the patch file. A sequence of one or
> more adjacent slashes is counted as a single slash. This
> controls how file names found in the patch file are treated, in
> case you keep your files in a different directory than the
> person who sent out the patch. For example, supposing the file
> name in the patch file was
Well there is a first step. I did not realize patch is a Linux app.
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John Fabiani
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