Re: [Quilt-dev] Re: being nice to patch(1)

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 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 -t" (or "--batch") should do it, I suspect.

But even with "patch -tu -p1" you do seem to end up having patch notice 
indented patch fragments (ie things that obviously are *not* part of the 
patch, but some explanation).

                Linus