1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/editors/patch.c b/editors/patch.c
index 65b8f659b..3de293f03 100644
--- a/editors/patch.c
+++ b/editors/patch.c
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ static char *extract_filename(char *line, int patch_level)
         temp = strchr(filename_start_ptr, '\t');
         if (temp) *temp = 0;
 
+        if (patch_level == -1) {
+                temp = strrchr(filename_start_ptr, '/');
+                if (temp)
+                        filename_start_ptr = temp + 1;
+                return xstrdup(filename_start_ptr);
+        }
+
         /* skip over (patch_level) number of leading directories */
         for (i = 0; i < patch_level; i++) {
                 temp = strchr(filename_start_ptr, '/');