[Linux-disciples] patch(1)

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 05:26:32PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote:
> Use 'diff -u' for starters.

Ah. That fits nicely into the 'patch -p' business. Cool.

> If the line numbers don't match up between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3, which they
> presumably won't, you'll have to tweak your diff files.

diff is good at chunk-matching; I'm not worried about that.

> It's not clear exactly what obstacle you're hitting, though. The gnu diff
> manpage/info page is quite comprehensive.

diff -u helps here, definitely. Here's the command line I'd
like to use:

diff -u -r /home/slaniel/wordpress/wordpress-2.0.2-{joel,orig} |patch -p1 -b /home/slaniel/wordpress/wordpress-2.0.3-orig/

which would somehow recursively patch the files in
wordpress-2.0.3-orig with the diffs between all the files in
the first two listed directories. But that doesn't work.

I assume there's some well-known way to do this?

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