I attempted M-x ediff-patch-file.
But then I ended with with an issue which is well-described by Michael (copied
on this email) in a thread on help-gnu-emacs back
in Feb this year:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2017-02/msg00035.html
It's the same issue that when I specify the root dir for all the patches to be
applied, ediff-patch-file in my case (epatch in
the case in that Feb 2017 thread) does not parse the subdirs for the unified
diff format headers.
In that thread, Eli suggests using patch utility directly from the
command-line. But I really wished ediff-patch-file/epatch
worked correctly when applying multi-file patches.
So the reason for this thread is:
- Has anyone been able to apply multi-file patches from within emacs? If so,
how?
- If someone has worked out the issues with ediff-patch-file/epatch for this
issue and the solution is lying around in their
workarea, it would be awesome if they provided a patch to fix it upstream :)
- I followed that Feb 2017 help thread, and it wasn't clear if a solution was
reached.. was it?