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On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 Jesper Juhl wrote:
> +How do I feed a patch/diff file to `patch'?
> +---
> + This (as usual with Linux and other UNIX like operating systems) can be
> +done in several different ways.
> +In all the examples below I feed the file (in uncompressed form) to patch
> +via stdin using the following syntax:
> +	patch -p1 < path/to/patch-x.y.z

I think you should mention the -s flag. Given the size of an
average kernel patch it is otherwise very likely that errors scroll
away unnoticed.

OTOH you might also want to add a mention of lsdiff and diffstat.

Johannes