From: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:03:15 GMT
Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)
Message-ID: <200707031803.15633.agruen@suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20070703084926.2e834aa5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>

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.

Andreas