On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 2:06 PM, Andreas Färber <andreas.faerber@xxxxxx> wrote: > > I can't argue against that then. > > OSX v10.5 man page (dated 2003/05/08, v2.5.8) has it different and so does > the GNU diffutils manual: > http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/html_node/patch-Directories.html#patch%20Directories > > Let's conclude that it might differ between versions or systems. Stephan, > check patch --help, and in doubt use --dry-run first. I might be wrong, the way it's worded makes it somewhat ambiguous in the case where the path to the file doesn't start with a /, since all its examples involve a leading / :) The way it's worded to me says that if it has a/b as a relative path and you do -p0, it should strip the a but leave the / alone, but I'd need to test that. Not really a big concern though. Regards, Rene