Re: How to apply patches?

Eric Youngdale (eric@aib.com)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:45:19 -0500


On Feb 19, 1:06pm, Leonard N. Zubkoff wrote:
> Subject: Re: How to apply patches?
> From: Joachim Schmitz <jojo@unixpc.dus.tandem.com>
> Date: Mon, 19 Feb 1996 10:29:22 +0100 (MET)
>
> This assumes, that I keep backups of the original files by adding a '~'
> to their name and if adding new files to create an empty file with the
'~'
> appended. This way I don't have to keep two source-trees.
>

I have my emacs and patch configured to do numbered backups.
Other than this, have a similar sort of script that looks for .~1~ files,
and diffs them.

-Eric

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