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27<h2><a name="patch">Patch</a></h2>
28<h3>Description</h3>
29<p>Applies a diff file to originals. ; requires "patch" to be
30 on the execution path. </p>
31<h3>Parameters</h3>
32<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
33 <tr>
34 <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
35 <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
36 <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
37 </tr>
38 <tr>
39 <td valign="top">patchfile</td>
40 <td valign="top">the file that includes the diff output</td>
41 <td align="center" valign="top">Yes</td>
42 </tr>
43 <tr>
44 <td valign="top">originalfile</td>
45 <td valign="top">the file to patch</td>
46 <td align="center" valign="top">No, tries to guess it from the diff
47 file</td>
48 </tr>
49 <tr>
50 <td valign="top">destfile</td>
51 <td valign="top">the file to send the output to instead of
52 patching the file(s) in place. <em>since Ant 1.6</em></td>
53 <td align="center" valign="top">No.</td>
54 </tr>
55 <tr>
56 <td valign="top">backups</td>
57 <td valign="top">Keep backups of the unpatched files</td>
58 <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
59 </tr>
60 <tr>
61 <td valign="top">quiet</td>
62 <td valign="top">Work silently unless an error occurs</td>
63 <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
64 </tr>
65 <tr>
66 <td valign="top">reverse</td>
67 <td valign="top">Assume patch was created with old and new files
68 swapped.</td>
69 <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
70 </tr>
71 <tr>
72 <td valign="top">ignorewhitespace</td>
73 <td valign="top">Ignore whitespace differences.</td>
74 <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
75 </tr>
76 <tr>
77 <td valign="top">strip</td>
78 <td valign="top">Strip the smallest prefix containing <i>num</i> leading
79 slashes from filenames.</td>
80 <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
81 </tr>
82 <tr>
83 <td valign="top">dir</td>
84 <td valign="top">The directory in which to run the patch command.</td>
85 <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is the project's basedir.</td>
86 </tr>
87</table>
88<h3>Examples</h3>
89<pre> &lt;patch patchfile=&quot;module.1.0-1.1.patch&quot;/&gt;</pre>
90<p>applies the diff included in <i>module.1.0-1.1.patch</i> to the
91files in base directory guessing the filename(s) from the diff output.</p>
92<pre> &lt;patch patchfile=&quot;module.1.0-1.1.patch&quot; strip=&quot;1&quot;/&gt;</pre>
93<p>like above but one leading directory part will be removed. i.e. if
94the diff output looked like</p>
95<pre>
96--- a/mod1.0/A Mon Jun 5 17:28:41 2000
97+++ a/mod1.1/A Mon Jun 5 17:28:49 2000
98</pre>
99the leading <i>a/</i> will be stripped.
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