Re: [SLUG] [PIG] me vs Borland

From: Eben King (eben01@verizon.net)
Date: Mon Jun 05 2006 - 23:35:46 EDT


On Mon, 5 Jun 2006, Paul M Foster wrote:

> Eben King wrote:
>
>> I _thought_ you did it like this:
>>
>> eben@pc:~/word_docs/cis-4930_object-oriented-programming/projects/complex_borland$
>> patch -p0 Complex.patch Complex-20060604-1131/Complex.cpp
>> patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
>
> You should only need to give the name of the patch file on the command line.

Like this?

eben@pc:~/word_docs/cis-4930_object-oriented-programming/projects/complex_borland$
ls
total 1.2M
4.0K bcc32.log 164K Complex.exe 4.0K
input.txt
  20K cartesian to polar conversion.doc 4.0K Complex.hpp 4.0K main.cpp
4.0K Command Prompt.lnk 4.0K Complex.hpp.old 164K main.exe
4.0K compile.bat 16K Complex.obj 12K main.obj
4.0K Complex-20060604-1131/ 4.0K Complex.patch 388K main.tds
8.0K Complex.cpp 388K Complex.tds
4.0K Complex.cpp.old 4.0K Copy of main.cpp
eben@pc:~/word_docs/cis-4930_object-oriented-programming/projects/complex_borland$
patch Complex.patch

It waits as if it's expecting data on stdin when I do that. I killed that
one with ^C. This errors out:

eben@pc:~/word_docs/cis-4930_object-oriented-programming/projects/complex_borland$
patch < Complex.patch
patching file Complex.cpp
patch: **** malformed patch at line 12:

> The number of subdirectories on the paths determines whether you give it a
> -p0, -p1, etc. on the command line.

So if it's expecting to find ./foo and instead you want it to look for
./bar/baz/foo you'd give it -p2 and tell it about the victim directory?

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