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Date: Fri, 17 Nov 2000 16:37:16 +0100
From: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
To: Kai Germaschewski <kai@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>
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Subject: Re: RFC: "SubmittingPatches" text
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On Fri, Nov 17, 2000 at 09:30:13AM +0100, Kai Germaschewski wrote:

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

Suppose the kernel tree is in /kernpath, starting with /kernpath/linux.
Linus' patches can be applied by (cd /kernpath; patch -p0 -s < patch)
while Alan's patches only work if you do
(cd /kernpath/linux; patch -p1 -s < ../patch)
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