On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 04:31:32PM -0300, Elias M. Mariani wrote: > But if I use "cvs diff > file.diff" and then try to apply it with > "patch < file.diff" the new directories (*/patches) are not generated > and the files just... drop in the working directory. (why?)
See the documentation of patch's -p flag (in fact, patch defaults to -p 957). Try 'patch -p 0 < file.diff'.
