Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)

From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Jul 3, 2007, 16:15 UTC
Message-ID: <20070703091539.5b44203d.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <200707031803.15633.agruen@suse.de>

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:03:15 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> wrote:

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> 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...