More tips in the manual page, and documentation for a few more changes made to the tool. Reference: /n/patches.lsub.org/patch/patchmanfix Date: Sat Apr 14 02:25:00 CES 2012 Signed-off-by: nemo@lsub.org --- /sys/man/1/patch Fri Apr 13 16:52:49 2012 +++ /sys/man/1/patch Sat Apr 14 02:23:53 2012 @@ -92,6 +92,13 @@ a new patch using the same name, after having addressed the comments discussed by mail. .PP +When you run +.I patch/create +to create a patch, the tree you are using considers the patch as applied, so that +further +.I patch/pull +calls in that tree will not try to apply an already applied patch. +.PP .I Patch/list displays information about the named patches, or all currently pending patches if none are specified. @@ -191,7 +198,12 @@ .EE .PP will get the new patch (as well as any other ones applied to the -main distribution). +main distribution, but not yet locally applied). +.PP +To ignore a patch and skip it from pull you can +.EX +echo patchname >>/dist/patch/applied +.EE .SH FILES .B /n/patches.lsub.org/patch .B /n/sources.lsub.org/nix