address@hidden: -p option only works with diff -u output?]

[Michael Fedrowitz]

 Hi,

another old bug from the Debian BTS...

-Michael


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To: address@hidden
Subject: -p option only works with diff -u output?
From: address@hidden (Bdale Garbee)

Package: patch
Version: 2.5.4-5

I just had an experience on ia64 where a diff that was created using 'diff -rN'
would not apply with 'patch -p1' even though -p1 should have been correct.  It
prompted me for each file's name... and giving it the path with the first token
stripped worked fine.  I then asked the provider to give me a 'diff -urN' and 
that worked fine.

Since I normally use diff with the -u option, this isn't a critical defect, but
I don't see anything in the docs suggesting that -p should only work with diff
-u output, so I presume this is a bug in patch.

Bdale
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