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

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Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date
Jul 3, 2007, 16:03 UTC
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On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
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> 
> 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 -t" (or "--batch") should do it, I suspect.

But even with "patch -tu -p1" you do seem to end up having patch notice indented patch fragments (ie things that obviously are *not* part of the patch, but some explanation).

		Linus
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Message 28 of 32 in “being nice to patch(1)”
  1. Andrew MortonJul 2, 2007
  2. Linus TorvaldsJul 2, 2007
  3. Andrew MortonJul 2, 2007
  4. Linus TorvaldsJul 2, 2007
  5. Andrew MortonJul 2, 2007
  6. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2007
  7. Junio C HamanoJul 3, 2007
  8. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2007
  9. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2007
  10. Paolo CiarrocchiJul 3, 2007
  11. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2007
  12. Theodore TsoJul 3, 2007
  13. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2007
  14. Paul EggertJul 3, 2007
  15. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2007
  16. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2007
  17. David KastrupJul 3, 2007
  18. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2007
  19. David KastrupJul 3, 2007
  20. diff --no-index: fix --name-status with added filesJohannes Schindelin, Jul 3, 2007
  21. Johannes SchindelinJul 3, 2007
  22. David KastrupJul 3, 2007
  23. David KastrupJul 6, 2007
  24. git-diff memory/speed/disk impacts (was: being nice to patch(1))David Kastrup, Jul 6, 2007
  25. Linus TorvaldsJul 6, 2007
  26. Andreas GruenbacherJul 3, 2007
  27. Andrew MortonJul 3, 2007
  28. Linus TorvaldsJul 3, 2007
  29. Andreas GruenbacherJul 3, 2007
  30. Andrew MortonJul 3, 2007
  31. Andrew MortonJul 3, 2007
  32. Andrew MortonJul 3, 2007

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