[svlug] Patch & Diffs

[Marc MERLIN]

On 3 Sep 1998 06:12:12 -0700, Michael K Vance <mkv102 at psu.edu> wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I try to be a good "customer", and download diff's to patch sources, so that
>I'm not tying up FTP sites. But I must say, I can't seem to get them to work.
>Yesterday, I downloaded the EGCS patch, the PGCC patch, and today the FreeCiv
>patch, and couldn't get any of them to work.
>
>Normally, I just execute:
>
>patch < diff-file

Use patch  -p0 or  -p1 depending on  what directory you're  in and  what the
patch is relative to  (-p1 is to patch in the same directory,  and -p0 is to
patch from one level up, like you would patch the linux kernel).

Marc
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