Re: Newbie question - Patching

Bjorn Wesen (bjorn@sparta.lu.se)
Sat, 17 Jul 1999 01:18:07 +0200 (MET DST)

On Fri, 16 Jul 1999, Arvind Sankar wrote:
> the old names are irrelevant. patch only looks at the new ones for determining
> what file is patched. so you should use -p1.

doh.. yeah you're right. but pretty confusing that it actually worked fine
with -p2 _except for new files_ :)

-bjorn

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