Re: Re: being nice to patch(1)

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 18:03:15 +0200 Andreas Gruenbacher [off-list ref] wrote:

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 17:49, Andrew Morton wrote:

quoted

I guess one could try `patch -p1' and if that failed, `patch -p1 -u'.

Hmm, I'll think about that, thanks.

quoted

But the problem is that patch will get stuck in interactive mode prompting
for a filename.  I've never actually worked how to make patch(1) just fail
rather than going interactive, not that I've tried terribly hard.  Any
hints there?

Patch -f will turn off those questions.

darnit, both `-f' and `-t' work.  Sigh.  I blame the manpage: too long ;)

Incidentally, the offending patch
(http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/git-scsi-misc.patch) sends patch(1) into
an infinite loop with `patch -p1 -f' and `patch -p1 -t'.  Presumably
it will do the same when that patch is offered to quilt...