[XForms] Patch help

[jason cipriani]

Generate your diff file just like you are doing now:

diff -ruN xforms1.0.90 mine-1.0.90 > xforms.patch

Then download a fresh copy of xforms, untar it to say, fresh-1.0.90, then do:

cd fresh-1.0.90
patch -p1 < ../xforms.patch

Don't forget the < in patch. Most versions of 'patch' take input files that way, you can't specify them as command line parameters.

The -p1 will tell patch to skip the "xforms1.0.90/" or "mine-1.0.90/" when getting file names from the patch file.

Jason

----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff <wd4nmq at comcast.net>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:13:38 -0400
To: xforms <xforms at bob.usuhs.mil>
Subject: [XForms] Patch help

> To subscribers of the xforms list
> 
> 
> It's been many years since I have made a patch and I am having trouble 
> creating one tht works with Xforms.
> 
> I untar xforms-1.0.90 and then cp it to mine-1.0.90 and make my changes 
> to files in mine-1.0.90.
> then from their base directory I run:
> 
> diff -ruN xforms1.0.90 mine-1.0.90 > xforms.patch
> 
> Now to test it I go to a vigin directory, copy xforms.patch there and 
> untar xforms.1.0.90 again. Then I run
> 
> patch -p0 xforms.patch
> 
> But I get an error:
> patching file xforms-1.090/lib/forms.c
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] 
> 
> What am I doing wrong?
> 
> I want to test out the patch before submitting it today.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> 
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