That was my problem! now I'm able to apply the patches.
Thanks to all for the big help on this and sorry for my ignorance. Now I
understand what Yawar means with "...on top of your patch".
Regards
Cristian
Il 17/11/2010 21:59, Geert Janssens ha scritto:
On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Cristian Marchi wrote:
I'm not able to apply the patches to my local copy due to my lack of
knowledge. I noticed that the heading of files is different from what
I'm accostumed to.
Normally I use the command "patch -po< filename" from the right path.
Can you apply yourself these patches and point me to some documentation
to learn how to apply them?
Thanks
Cristian
Just for completeness sake, -p0 would not work with Yawar's patches.
The files inside his patches have paths like
a/some/path/to/file
b/some/path/to/file
The "a" and "b" are fictional path components added by git. For patch to find
the proper files, these fictional parts have to be stripped. That's what -p1
does as Derek suggested, it strips one level of subdirectories from all file
paths found in the patch.
Your alternative (proposed by Yawar) is to go directly into help/C and apply
the patches from there. But in this case you have to tell patch that the files
referred to in the patch file are in the current directory, not 3 levels down
as the file names in the patch would suggest. Hence in this case you should
use -p3 (to strip 3 levels of subdirectories from all pathnames in the patch).
Of course all of this only works if you had first applied your own patch (see
my other mail).
Geert
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