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

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 17:49, Andrew Morton wrote:
> I guess one could try `patch -p1' and if that failed, `patch -p1 -u'.

Hmm, I'll think about that, thanks.

> 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.

Andreas