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Re: I've been caught out

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On Mon, Jan 24, 2022 at 06:08:57AM -0500, gene heskett wrote:
> 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.

The man page disagrees with you on that, as Thomas notes :)

>                            Or do we have a gui to 
> oversee that, something like kompare maybe? I'll take a look.

See my other answer for a quick-and-dirty proposal. There are several
patch managers around which help you on that -- quilt is one of them.

Cheers
-- 
tomás

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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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