[Python-Dev] [Python-checkins] devguide: Suggest using mpatch in the FAQ

Eric Smith eric at trueblade.com
Sat Mar 12 00:14:46 CET 2011


On 03/11/2011 06:03 PM, antoine.pitrou wrote:
>   If you want to try out or review a patch generated using Mercurial, do::
>
> -   hg import --no-commit somework.patch
> +   patch -p1<  somework.patch
>
>   This will apply the changes in your working copy without committing them.
>   If the patch was not created by Mercurial (for example, a patch created by
>   Subversion and thus lacking any ``a``/``b`` directory prefixes in the patch),
> -add ``-p0`` to the above command.
> +replace ``-p0`` with ``-p1``.

Do you have this backwards? There is no -p0, it's already -p1.

Eric.


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