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RE: How to resolve hiccups by patch program?
- From: Igor Peshansky <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: "'Markus Elfring'" <Markus dot Elfring at web dot de>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 09:51:03 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: RE: How to resolve hiccups by patch program?
- References: <023e01c7331f$38720df0$a501a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Mon, 8 Jan 2007, Dave Korn wrote:
> On 08 January 2007 10:58, Markus Elfring wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I published the file "const4.patch"
> > (http://bugs.digium.com/file_download.php?file_id=12617&type=bug)
>
> > I assume that I am not affected by wrong line endings as it was suggested
> > for the topic 'Is "Patch" broken?'.
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/cygwin/2004-04/msg00334.html
>
> I think you are, since your patch has CRLF line ends. If you're using
> Tortoise, it's probably auto-mangling the line-ends for you. It likes
> to be "helpful" like that, but what you actually tend to end up with is
> a working tree that isn't interoperable with cygwin.
>
> Does running d2u over the rejected hunk fix your problem? Does
> generating the patch by the commandline svn client under cygwin generate
> a patch in the correct format for the patch utility under cygwin?
And, of course, as the message you referenced suggests, try "patch -l" and
see if that helps.
Igor
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