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Re: I've been caught out

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On Monday, January 24, 2022 5:19:13 AM EST Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> > gene@coyote:~/Debian-arm/linux$ patch -p1  ../patches/*.patch
> > patch: ../patches/0001-mm-memcg-Disable-threshold-event-handlers-on-
> > PREEMPT.patch: extra operand
> 
> man patch says
> 
>        patch [options] [originalfile [patchfile]]
> 
> With "patchfile" being singular i'd expect that it refuses if you give
> more than one.
> Further it does not look as if you give an "originalfile", which is
> demanded by the common []-bracket around "originalfile [patchfile]".
> 
> So what file do you want to change by the patch ?
> Does ../patches/*.patch evaluate to a single file ?
> 
No, its a directory with many patches. IMO patch should take them, in 
their sorted order, until its out of patches. Or do we have a gui to 
oversee that, something like kompare maybe? I'll take a look.

> (I get that error if i give three dummy file arguments.
>  If i give two i get a lot of "Hunk ... FAILED at .." because my second
> file is no properly formatted patch.
>  If i give one, the program waits for standard input.)
> 
> 
> Have a nice day :)
> 
> Thomas
> 
Thanks Thomas, stay well now.
> .


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I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 11:10 +0100
  Re: I've been caught out "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-01-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 12:10 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-24 12:20 +0100
        Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 21:40 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2022-01-24 12:40 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out Mark Allums <mark@allums.email> - 2022-01-24 13:20 +0100
  Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-24 11:30 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-24 21:40 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-24 21:40 +0100
  Re: I've been caught out Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-24 13:50 +0100
    Re: I've been caught out Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de> - 2022-01-25 09:20 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.net> - 2022-01-25 13:50 +0100
        Re: I've been caught out <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2022-01-25 14:10 +0100
      Re: I've been caught out Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-25 13:50 +0100
        Re: I've been caught out gene heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2022-01-25 18:00 +0100

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