070810. Modify some files in nb.org CVS and generate a diff. As seen e.g. in

http://www.netbeans.org/nonav/issues/showattachment.cgi/46471/kits_golden_file.diff

you get a relative Index (relative to CVS root, that was issue #72938, thanks) but still absolute filenames, e.g.:

Index: nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java
--- /space/src/nb_all/nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java Base (1.26)
+++ /space/src/nb_all/nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java Locally Modified (Based On 1.26)

as opposed to command-line cvs diff, which creates all relative paths, e.g.

Index: nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java
===================================================================
RCS file: /shared/data/ccvs/repository/nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java,v
retrieving revision 1.26
diff -u -r1.26 ModuleDependencies.java
--- nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java	3 Aug 2007 11:40:28 -0000	1.26
+++ nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java	10 Aug 2007 23:35:21 -0000

Command-line patch does not easily accept the patches created by NetBeans:

nb_all$ patch -p0 --dry-run < /tmp/kits_golden_file.diff 
can't find file to patch at input line 8
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|# This patch file was generated by NetBeans IDE
|# This patch can be applied using context Tools: Apply Diff Patch action on respective folder.
|# It uses platform neutral UTF-8 encoding.
|# Above lines and this line are ignored by the patching process.
|Index: nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java
|--- /Users/petrjiricka/sources/trunk/nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java Base (1.26)
|+++ /Users/petrjiricka/sources/trunk/nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java Locally Modified
(Based On 1.26)
--------------------------
File to patch: 

whereas when the absolute prefix (here "/Users/petrjiricka/sources/trunk/") is removed by manual editing, it applies
cleanly:

nb_all$ patch -p0 < /tmp/kits_golden_file.diff 
patching file nbbuild/antsrc/org/netbeans/nbbuild/ModuleDependencies.java
patching file nbbuild/build.xml

Or you can use some higher -p option - in this case -p5, by trial and error.

Note that the patch applies cleanly with -p0 also if you happen to be applying it a checkout of the same full path name
as it was generated on! So to test you need to use a patch created on a different working directory.