From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:03:07 GMT
Subject: Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.98.0707030901310.9434@woody.linux-foundation.org>
In-Reply-To: <20070703084926.2e834aa5.akpm@linux-foundation.org>



On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 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