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From: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: patch croaks on subdirectories
Keywords: Patch 2.0 patchlevel 12
Message-ID: <2881@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV>
Date: 17 Sep 88 00:25:38 GMT
References: <200@cvbnet2.UUCP>
Reply-To: lwall@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV (Larry Wall)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA.
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In article <200@cvbnet2.UUCP> news@cvbnet2.UUCP (news) writes:
: Any time the Index or the filenames called for a file in one of the
: subdirectories, Patch would ask me "File to patch:"
: ...
: The result of all this is to ask if this is a bug or a feature in patch. I
: would think that there ought to be some way of informing patch about
: subdirectories without having to '+ -d' your way to glory for a large diff.

Which is why the patch says to say "patch -p -N".  Someday I may make that
default.

Larry