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| <h2><a name="patch">Patch</a></h2> |
| <h3>Description</h3> |
| <p>Applies a diff file to originals. ; requires "patch" to be |
| on the execution path. </p> |
| <h3>Parameters</h3> |
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| <tr> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td> |
| <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td> |
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| <td valign="top">patchfile</td> |
| <td valign="top">the file that includes the diff output</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">originalfile</td> |
| <td valign="top">the file to patch</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, tries to guess it from the diff |
| file</td> |
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| <td valign="top">destfile</td> |
| <td valign="top">the file to send the output to instead of |
| patching the file(s) in place. <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">backups</td> |
| <td valign="top">Keep backups of the unpatched files</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">quiet</td> |
| <td valign="top">Work silently unless an error occurs</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">reverse</td> |
| <td valign="top">Assume patch was created with old and new files |
| swapped.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">ignorewhitespace</td> |
| <td valign="top">Ignore whitespace differences.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
| <tr> |
| <td valign="top">strip</td> |
| <td valign="top">Strip the smallest prefix containing <i>num</i> leading |
| slashes from filenames.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No</td> |
| </tr> |
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| <td valign="top">dir</td> |
| <td valign="top">The directory in which to run the patch command.</td> |
| <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is the project's basedir.</td> |
| </tr> |
| </table> |
| <h3>Examples</h3> |
| <pre> <patch patchfile="module.1.0-1.1.patch"/></pre> |
| <p>applies the diff included in <i>module.1.0-1.1.patch</i> to the |
| files in base directory guessing the filename(s) from the diff output.</p> |
| <pre> <patch patchfile="module.1.0-1.1.patch" strip="1"/></pre> |
| <p>like above but one leading directory part will be removed. i.e. if |
| the diff output looked like</p> |
| <pre> |
| --- a/mod1.0/A Mon Jun 5 17:28:41 2000 |
| +++ a/mod1.1/A Mon Jun 5 17:28:49 2000 |
| </pre> |
| the leading <i>a/</i> will be stripped. |
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