How to apply an svn diff

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith]

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On 01/08/2013 03:49 PM, Matthew Seaman wrote:
> On 08/01/2013 21:47, Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> Once you've created an svn diff and submitted it using send-pr,
>> how is the diff applied to update the port?  I can't seem to
>> figure this out from reading the svn docs.
> 
> use patch(1)

While we are on the subject of patch, has anyone else noticed the
following annoyance?

Suppose you create a patch against a non-existent file (using diff
- -N), and let's suppose the old file is dir-orig/xxx, and the new file
is dir/xxx.

Then if I apply the patch to dir, and dir-orig doesn't exist, then
patch issues all kinds of horrible error messages, and the new file is
installed in the current directory rather than dir.

I'm not sure if it is a bug or a feature.  But it has bitten me more
than once.

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