Re: [bug-patch] [request] Add option -I <regexp> for matching context

[Andreas Gruenbacher]

On Thursday 12 November 2009 09:00:08 Urs Thuermann wrote:
> [...]
> I would like to see an option -I with an regexp argument, that,
> similar to diff, considers lines in the file to be patched and lines
> in the patch to be matching, if they match the regular expression.
> 
> In the example above, you could then call patch as follows
> 
>         svn diff -c2 foo | patch -I '$Id.*$' foo
> 
> to apply the patch successfully.  My current (somewhat risky)
> workaround patch -F3 could then be avoided.

This sounds reasonable to me.  Would you mind adding this feature request to 
the bug list?

        https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?group=patch

Thanks,
Andreas