On Saturday 08 March 2003 20:48, Daniel Carrera wrote: > Suppose that I have two patches from different sources. And I'm > interested in both. Is it possible to get both sets of changes?
Yes, as long as they don't change the same things. If diff A changes
things that diff B also wants to change, the program ("patch") that's
looking for the things to change will not be able to find what it's
looking for, so diff B will fail -- either completely or by one or more
"hunks".
So if you've got one kernel patch involving filesystems, and another
related to networking, odds are you can apply them both. If they are
both trying to change the way memory paging is performed, you probably
won't succeed in applying both patches. :)
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