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From: "Barry Friedman" <friedman@nortel.ca>
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Subject: Re: patch wierdness & patch-2.1b
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 1997 01:10:01 -0500 (EST)
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Andy> Trying to patch up from b7 -> b90, patch ended up putting loads of
Andy> new files in /tmp instead of in the source tree - is there a reason
Andy> for this?

Finally got around to trying the pre-release patch and as you said new 
files ended up in /tmp.  According to the patch-2.1b man page:

      If no original file is specified on the command line, patch will try
      to figure out from the leading garbage what the name of the file to
      edit is.  In the header of a context diff, the file name is found from
      lines beginning with "***" or "---", with the shortest name of an
      existing file winning.  Only context diffs have lines like that, but
      if there is an "Index:" line in the leading garbage, patch will try to
      use the file name from that line.  The context diff header takes
      precedence over an Index line.  If no file name can be intuited from
      the leading garbage, you will be asked for the name of the file to
      patch.

So the 'Index:' lines are ignored.


What happened to Chuck's scripts for producing 'sh' patches that worked?

-- 
Barry Friedman                         

