Andries Brouwer wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Kai Germaschewski wrote:
>
> > One question comes to my mind: Are patches supposed to be applied with
> > patch -p0 or patch -p1?
>
> Suppose the kernel tree is in /kernpath, starting with /kernpath/linux.
> Linus' patches can be applied by (cd /kernpath; patch -p0 -s < patch)
^^^^ ALSO
> while Alan's patches only work if you do
> (cd /kernpath/linux; patch -p1 -s < ../patch)
For uniformity, I would recommend that everyone generates patches that
are "Linus-style", but that when applying, you treat them as "Alan-style".
Less chances for surprises.
Roger.
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