Apache Ant TasksPatchPatchDescriptionApplies a diff file to originals. ; requires "patch" to be on the execution path. Parameters | Attribute | Description | Required | | patchfile | the file that includes the diff output | Yes | | originalfile | the file to patch | No, tries to guess it from the diff file | | destfile | the file to send the output to instead of patching the file(s) in place. since Apache Ant 1.6 | No. | | backups | Keep backups of the unpatched files | No | | quiet | Work silently unless an error occurs | No | | reverse | Assume patch was created with old and new files swapped. | No | | ignorewhitespace | Ignore whitespace differences. | No | | strip | Strip the smallest prefix containing num leading slashes from filenames. | No | | dir | The directory in which to run the patch command. | No, default is the project's basedir. | | failonerror | Stop the buildprocess if the command exits with a return code signaling failure. Defaults to false. since Ant 1.8.0 | No | Examples <patch patchfile="module.1.0-1.1.patch"/> applies the diff included in module.1.0-1.1.patch to thefiles in base directory guessing the filename(s) from the diff output. <patch patchfile="module.1.0-1.1.patch" strip="1"/> like above but one leading directory part will be removed. i.e. ifthe diff output looked like --- a/mod1.0/AMon Jun 5 17:28:41 2000+++ a/mod1.1/AMon Jun 5 17:28:49 2000 the leading a/ will be stripped. | 
