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diff --git a/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst b/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst index 4edae33392..2438c023b4 100644 --- a/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst +++ b/documentation/ref-manual/tasks.rst @@ -326,21 +326,19 @@ file as a patch file:: file://file;apply=yes \ " -Conversely, if you have a directory full of patch files and you want to -exclude some so that the ``do_patch`` task does not apply them during -the patch phase, you can use the "apply=no" parameter with the +Conversely, if you have a file whose file type is ``.patch`` or ``.diff`` +and you want to exclude it so that the ``do_patch`` task does not apply +it during the patch phase, you can use the "apply=no" parameter with the :term:`SRC_URI` statement:: SRC_URI = " \ git://path_to_repo/some_package \ - file://path_to_lots_of_patch_files \ - file://path_to_lots_of_patch_files/patch_file5;apply=no \ + file://file1.patch \ + file://file2.patch;apply=no \ " -In the -previous example, assuming all the files in the directory holding the -patch files end with either ``.patch`` or ``.diff``, every file would be -applied as a patch by default except for the ``patch_file5`` patch. +In the previous example ``file1.patch`` would be applied as a patch by default +while ``file2.patch`` would not be applied. You can find out more about the patching process in the ":ref:`overview-manual/concepts:patching`" section in |