[Linux-disciples] patch(1)

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 12:21:28PM -0400, Dylan Thurston wrote:
> According to the man patch, '-p' cuts out equal numbers of slashes from
> both sets of file names.

Right. This is the difficulty that I'm trying to get around.
I diffed the directories like so:

diff -r /home/slaniel/wordpress/wordpress-2.0.2-orig/ /home/slaniel/svn/budgetblog/trunk/htdocs/ > difffile

The first directory has five slashes in it, whereas the
second has seven. So when I do

patch -b < difffile

it's not clear whether I want -p5 or -p7. And as you note,
patch(1) strips the same number of slashes off both
directories.

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