Re: diff-apply-hunk documentation doesn't match implementation

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>>>> This is just one part of the implementation.  The behavior is actually
>>>>> pretty subtle (too subtle, admittedly).  So I can't judge without knowing
>>>>> which end-user-level behavior you're referring to.
>>> 
>>>> I look at a hunk, it says "Hunk not yet applied", I want to apply it, it
>>>> applies it to the original instead of the file I look at.
>>> 
>>> Details please?
>
>> What do you need?
>
> Everything starting from "emacs -Q", including the patch file.

$ wget ftp://lwfinger.dynalias.org/patches/combined_2.6.20.2.patch
$ wget ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/testing/linux-2.6.21-rc3.tar.bz2
$ tar -xf linux-2.6.21-rc3.tar.bz2
$ cp -a linux-2.6.21-rc3 linux-2.6.21-rc3.orig
$ emacs combined_2.6.20.2.patch
C-c C-f
M-n M-4 M-f DEL 1-rc3 RET M-n M-n M-n
C-c C-a M-p

Andreas.

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