How to apply snapshot patches?

[David Sterba]

Hi

> Could anybody tell me a way to cleanly apply snapshot patches to
> the reference (4.6.0) tree?
>
> I'm doing
>
> $ cd mc-4.6.0
> $ patch -p4 < ../mc-4.6.0-2003-06-25-17.diff
I think the problem is in '-p4'. If you cd into right mc tree,
there should go '-p1' which means 'strip one directory from left'.
see 'man patch' for details (e.g. the parameter '-p').

bye
David