On Tuesday 19 November 2002 00:20, Rik van Riel wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, deepak wrote:
> > how do i uninstall a patch
>
> $ man patch
> ...
> -R or --reverse
> Assume that this patch was created with the old and new
> files swapped. (Yes, I'm afraid that does happen occa
> sionally, human nature being what it is.) patch
> attempts to swap each hunk around before applying it.
> Rejects come out in the swapped format. The -R option
> ...
>
> Next time you should read the man page yourself ;)
Come on, be fair. This text is pretty obscure. If you didn't know so
already, would you understand from it that -R undoes a patch?
Duncan.
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