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How to only add lines using patch?
I'd like to be able to use diff & patch in order to write new lines to a file. To clarify what I mean a bit:
Original file: test1.repo
exclude=mongo*
exclude=sqlite*
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How do I get a good directory difffile I can use to patch/what to use for patch
I'd like to make a clean diff of a directory that allows me
to later use a gui patch program for windows to apply the diffile.
If possible I don't want to have to deal with hardcoded paths in the ...
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does anyone have the patch for xp pro 32bit SP2-3 that enables use of more than 4gb ram? [closed]
Ok, simple question, plz stick to it. Even with PAE enabled, M$ has artificial limitations, and even more in sp2-3. So its not a technical or architectual limitation (there are patches for vista & ...
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diff and patch tool
I'm trying to generate patches for a bunch of files I changed. I'm using Meld which does a great job of diff’ing the files in a nice visual manor, then it allows me to save and generate a patch file ...
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Arch Linux: How to handle patches which only you will use?
I'm using freerdp together with xmonad and it has been giving me a lot of trouble.
The super key (or "windows key") is my mod key in xmonad and it has been interfering with my freerdp usage rather ...
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How to patch something with diff output?
I want to apply the below changes to some code that someone has written and provided a diff output from. Is there a way given only the output below I can easily create a patch and apply it, or (as ...
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Installing a patch on Windows 7 VM
I've just installed a Windows XP and Windows 7 virtual machine in Oracle VirtualBox, as I want to test that my domain certificates are good for the forthcoming MS patch 2661254 (which checks the ...
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Can a crossover cable be used as a patch cable?
Can I connect a Netgear DGND3300 10/100 modem/router, via a crossover cable, to either a Gigabyte M61PME-S2 containing an nForce 10/100 chip or an Asrock P67 Extreme4 with Gigabit Ethernet, with the ...
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Easiest way to install the Ubuntu Mysql Security Patch
I am looking for a quick and easy way to install the security fix for CVE-2012-2122 on my Ubuntu boxes. I don't want to risk installing any of the other updates and I just want to install the ...
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What is the technical differences between “update” and “upgrade” with yum?
I frequently use the following when updating/upgrading RPM-based distros (CentOS, RHEL, and Fedora in my case):
yum -y update && yum -y upgrade
However, I'm not sure exactly how the two yum ...
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Let diff create new files, but not remove existing files
Maybe I am missing something, but I'd like a diff between two directories to create files that don't exist, but not remove files that do. So, given something like:
./a/foo
./b/bar
This command:
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How to prevent patch from creating backup files?
I'm writing some code that will apply the patch(1) program, and I want to completely prevent it from creating backup files. That is, I don't want it to create foo.orig files when it either fails to ...
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Atomic application of unix patch
I have prepared a "patch" to my customer who will need to manually apply it to their code. If patch is applied partially due to conflicts then the whole procedure needs to be immediately reversed.
I ...
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An Application to describe .patch files
Do you know any application that be able to describe .patch files?
I mean an application that be able to get .patch file & give me a human readable of the changes it make on files so I'll be able ...
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Tool to create a patch that modifies/adds files within a directory structure
I have a set of files that need a set of changes applied to them.
In this scenario I have a Java Application Server (distributed via a zip file) that I need to apply a set of known configurations to, ...
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compiling curl with HipHop for PHP Patch [closed]
I'm following this guide: https://github.com/facebook/hiphop-php/wiki/Building-and-installing-on-ubuntu-10.10
It want's me to download curl source, doing the patch and compile this. well, but i get ...
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Jump to file/line of current patch hunk in vim
If I'm viewing a multi-file diff in vim - for example the one produced by running :VCSDiff in a netrw buffer - and I position my cursor over a particular hunk, is there a way to jump to the affected ...
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How do I apply a patch to my Linux kernel?
I am trying to compile the iscsi-target software SCST. It wants me to apply a patch to my Linux kernel in order to allow for certain performance gains. The problem is I still new to Linux development. ...
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Binary diff/patch for large files on linux?
I've got two partition images (A and B) and want to use them to create a patch that I can apply on A on another computer in order to get the new B image without flooding the network. I have the ...
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How do i apply a patch to Synergy in Mac OS X
I have downloaded a patch for a keyboard problem in Synergy for my mac but have no idea how to use it
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Windows 7 Enterprise: Cannot connect to internet using BSNL modem
I have a BSNL modem, which worked fine with Windows Vista. After I started using Windows 7 Enterprise, I found that I couldn't connect to the net using the modem (keep getting Error 651). It seems ...
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Binary diff file
I have installed an unofficial patch to an application I am using, which essentially uses unix's patch command to apply a binary diff file to a directory. It appears to me it modifies the object files ...
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Zune Last-day-of-leap-year bug - did Microsoft release a fix? [closed]
When the Zune 30's had the outage on the last day of 2008, there was a side discussion about how long it would take for Microsoft to create a fix.
After the dust settled, the problem "fixed itself" ...
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Where the Ubuntu's source can be gotten?
Where can I get Ubuntu's source code? Actually I want It's kernel's code. I know I can get the kernel from kernel.org but as I found out that Ubuntu does some patching on the kernel I want to know ...
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Do distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora costomize their own kernels?
As I was trying to do some patching on Ubuntu's kernel I've found out kernel.org's patches cannot be merged correctly with the kernel source. I'm wondering if distributions like Ubuntu have their own ...
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How to apply patch to Gnome on Ubuntu
My system has been crashing, and I think it may have something to do with Gnome since the crashes only occur when I'm using it. I checked the log file after a crash and it reported...
Gtk-CRITICAL ...
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Windows 2000 will be end of life on the next patch day, but will it still receive patches on that day?
I still have a few old Win9x VMs I can no longer reinstall because their update services do not longer work. So, I'd like to use WSUS Offline Update to burn a CD with all Windows 2000 updates after ...
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How much bandwidth is used by security updates?
Does anyone have a ballpark figure on how much bandwidth is used on average each month by Windows 7 for security updates / patches?
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Navigating to next hunk in a patch file using VIM
Some of us are familiar with patch failures like "Hunk #11 FAILED at 958." -- is there a command in VIM that allows me to go to, say, 11th hunk ... without having to manually count it? Even a shortcut ...
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What do these instructions mean in plain English?
I know it's for the linux program patch, but if I try to use it, I get the following error:
missing header for unified diff at line 4 of patch
malformed patch at line 5: quit
Instead, I'd like to ...
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Copy “%SystemRoot%\SoftwareDistribution\Download” to another computer
Is it possible (and safe) to copy the SoftwareDistribution\Download folder from one Windows XP machine, A, to another, B, and then let update.microsoft.com do its thing on B minus the download ...
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tool to display patch file
What tools exist to display patch files? A text editor is usually good enough. ColorDiff can add color. Ideally though the tool would also show intra-line differences like KDiff3.
