Bug 7736

Summary:	patch ORIGFILE PATCHFILE uses the wrong file path
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	Andreas Klauer <Andreas.Klauer>
Component:	Other	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	1.22.x
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description Andreas Klauer 2014-12-21 18:43:35 UTC

I'm trying to patch a file in a subdir. According to busybox patch --help this syntax should be supported, but it does not work...

Expected behaviour:

$ patch subdir/a some.patch
patching file subdir/a

But BusyBox ignores the subdir completely:

$ busybox patch subdir/a some.patch
patching file a
patch: can't open 'a': No such file or directory

If a file exists in the current dir, it tries to patch that instead:

$ touch a
$ busybox patch subdir/a some.patch
patching file a
Hunk 1 FAILED 1/1.
-foobar
+barfoo

Even if it succeeds, subdir/a remains unpatched.

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2016-01-23 04:14:36 UTC

Fixed in git. Thanks!