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Subject: Re: RFC: "SubmittingPatches" text
In-Reply-To: <20001117163716.A29847@veritas.com> from Andries Brouwer at "Nov
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To: Andries Brouwer <aeb@veritas.com>
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2000 11:24:39 +0100 (MET)
CC: Kai Germaschewski <kai@thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
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From: R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl (Rogier Wolff)
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Andries Brouwer wrote:
> 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)
                   ^^^^ ALSO
> while Alan's patches only work if you do
> (cd /kernpath/linux; patch -p1 -s < ../patch)

For uniformity, I would recommend that everyone generates patches that 
are "Linus-style", but that when applying, you treat them as "Alan-style". 

Less chances for surprises.

				Roger. 


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