Patch for Help - Gettingstarted and GUImenus xml files

[Geert Janssens]

On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Geert Janssens wrote:
> On Tuesday 16 November 2010, Christian Stimming wrote:
> > Am Dienstag, 16. November 2010 schrieb Cristian Marchi:
> > > I'm not able to apply the patches to my local copy due to my lack of
> > > knowledge. I noticed that the heading of files is different from what
> > > I'm accostumed to.
> > > Normally I use the command "patch -po < filename" from the right path.
> > > Can you apply yourself these patches and point me to some documentation
> > > to learn how to apply them?
> > 
> > It should be possible to use these patches also with "patch -p0" (that's
> > a zero, not an "o", right?) even though the files contain an additional
> > header. The numbering in the file name gives you the order by which they
> > can be applied. Those files are generated from a local git repository.
> 
> I have experienced problems with git patches in the past as well, when
> trying to apply them with the patch command. In my case I found the the
> trailing version number confused patch. I usually can apply the patches if
> I simply remove the last two lines (meaning the line starting with -- and
> the version number below).
> 
> Geert

In retrospect I think my problems were with Eclipse's implementation of patch, 
not with the command line tool patch. So you may ignore my comment in this 
discussion.

Geert