root@box:/usr/src/linux# patch -p1 --dry-run < ../patch-3.10.4
patching file Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected! Assume -R? [n] ^C
This'd be fine except that you've already applied patch-3.10.3 the day before yesterday and you don't want to keep track of which patches are already applied and stuff, you just want to see whether or not the new 3.10.4 patches apply without problems.
Plus you've got other patches applied as well so you really just want to have a patch with the changes form one minor release to the other, right?
So that's where interdiff comes into play:
interdiff patch-3.10.3 patch-3.10.4 > patch-3.10.3-to-3.10.4
Now we have a patch that only includes the changes from 3.10.3 to 3.10.4 and that can be applied directly and cleanly to our already patched-with-the-previous-version-and-other-stuff-as-well Linux tree.
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