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authorMartin Quinson <martin.quinson@loria.fr>2011-09-28 16:12:23 +0200
committerMartin Quinson <martin.quinson@loria.fr>2011-09-28 16:12:23 +0200
commit90e69fc77ceae0b6f75408501de354a161fe9ed0 (patch)
treecff7115ebe6619fc8c5caf9881c1eb88d01ad0d9 /doc
parent96440f3c1d2afafc0a1310d9176f58c58a46c76e (diff)
downloadquilt-90e69fc77ceae0b6f75408501de354a161fe9ed0.tar.gz
several documentation fixes that were accumulated over the years in Debian package
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
-rw-r--r--doc/main.tex7
-rw-r--r--doc/quilt.1.in10
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/doc/main.tex b/doc/main.tex
index f6fbae7..51042dd 100644
--- a/doc/main.tex
+++ b/doc/main.tex
@@ -690,9 +690,10 @@ patch which function a change is in.
\item[\textsf{QUILT\_PATCH\_OPTS}]
Additional options that quilt shall pass to \prog{GNU patch} when
-applying patches. (For example, some versions of \prog{GNU patch}
-support the ``\textsf{--unified-reject-files}'' option for generating
-reject files in unified diff style.
+applying patches. (For example, recent versions of \prog{GNU patch}
+support the ``\textsf{--reject-format=unified}'' option for generating
+reject files in unified diff style (older versions used
+``\textsf{--unified-reject-files}'' for that).
\item[\textsf{QUILT\_PATCHES}]
The location of patch files (see Section~\ref{sec:basic}). This setting
diff --git a/doc/quilt.1.in b/doc/quilt.1.in
index f4b94e6..1c1dcc2 100644
--- a/doc/quilt.1.in
+++ b/doc/quilt.1.in
@@ -145,8 +145,8 @@ Please refer to the pdf documentation for an example.
Upon startup, quilt evaluates the file .quiltrc in the user's home
directory, or the file specified with the --quiltrc option. This file
-is a regular bash script. Default options can be passed to any command
-by defining a QUILT_COMMAND_ARGS variable. For example,
+is a regular bash script. Default options can be passed to any COMMAND
+by defining a QUILT_${COMMAND}_ARGS variable. For example,
QUILT_DIFF_ARGS="--color=auto" causes the output of quilt diff to be
syntax colored when writing to a terminal.
@@ -161,9 +161,9 @@ to show in the resulting patch which function a change is in.
.IP QUILT_PATCH_OPTS 4
Additional options that quilt shall pass to GNU patch when applying
-patches. For example, some versions of GNU patch support the
-"--unified-reject-files" option for generating reject files in unified
-diff style.
+patches. For example, recent versions of GNU patch support the
+"--reject-format=unified" option for generating reject files in unified
+diff style (older patch versions used "--unified-reject-files" for that).
.IP QUILT_DIFFSTAT_OPTS 4