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> After learning to my horror that gnu patch will, if a patch was made to be 
> applied with option -p0, sometimes apply patches to your 'clean' tree (the
> one with the ---'s) instead of the target tree (the one with the +++'s) I
> decided to switch to -p1, and that is how this patch is to be applied.

The worst thing is that gnu patch will make
this decision on a per-file basis, so you
can't then back out the changes with -R.

Do like this:

diff -Naurd old new

IMPORTANT: the directory names should have
the same number of characters in them.
Do not try something like:

diff -Naurd bad idea
diff -Naurd doomed 2fail

Don't use "linux" for a name. Don't use
anything Linus might use. Pick your own
equal-length directory names, and don't
distribute tarballs containing them.
This prevents source-destroying disasters.

Then to apply:

(cd my-linux && bzip2 -dc ../foo.bz2 | patch -p1 -s -E)

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