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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 09:30:13 +0100 (CET)
From: Kai Germaschewski <kai@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Jeff Garzik wrote:

> To create a patch for a single file, it is often sufficient to do:
> 
> 	SRCTREE=/usr/src/linux
> 	MYFILE=drivers/net/mydriver.c
> 
> 	cd $SRCTREE
> 	cp $MYFILE $MYFILE.orig
> 	vi $MYFILE	# make your change
> 	diff -u $MYFILE.orig $MYFILE > /tmp/patch

One question comes to my mind: Are patches supposed to be applied with
patch -p0 or patch -p1? 

AFAIU, the preferred way is -p1, but the above example would need -p0, if
I'm not mistaken. So that'ld make it harder than necessary to collect
patches and then apply the whole set, which seems to be Linus' preferred
way.

--Kai

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