patch croaks on subdirectories

[Larry Wall]

In article <200 at cvbnet2.UUCP> news at cvbnet2.UUCP (news) writes:
: Any time the Index or the filenames called for a file in one of the
: subdirectories, Patch would ask me "File to patch:"
: ...
: The result of all this is to ask if this is a bug or a feature in patch. I
: would think that there ought to be some way of informing patch about
: subdirectories without having to '+ -d' your way to glory for a large diff.

Which is why the patch says to say "patch -p -N".  Someday I may make that
default.

Larry