[GRASS-user] v.patch and keeping the attributes

[Markus Neteler]

On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 5:36 PM Markus Neteler <neteler at osgeo.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 30, 2018 at 10:26 AM Mira Kattwinkel:
> >
> > Thanks a lot!
> >
> > I just did not interpret the paragraph  "When using the -a flag..." correctly.
> >
> > Maybe a note in the manual that v.patch takes care of the cats etc. would be helpful.
>
> if you could send a (draft) text addition to me, I'll merge it into the manual.

Based on Mira's offlist sent text snippet, I would add this text under "NOTES":

"When using the -e flag, v.patch assigns new, unique category (cat)
values so that no overlapping category numbers  occur  in  the
output. Hence, there is no need to run v.category beforehand."

Is that correct?

thanks
markusN