Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > > patch is a tricky area in terms of line-endings. This is mostly > > explained in <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00492.html>. > > Wow! How did you locate this message? > > I see it appearing in results for "patch newlines" but not for "patch > newline" (I use marc.theaimsgroup.com).
I use Google. I think I started with "site:cygwin.com inurl:ml patch textmode" and followed a couple of threads. > So, my only option is having a hacked version of patch that writes with > CR? Perhaps running u2d afterwards, dunno... You might also try building patch with textmode.o linked in, but I'm not sure if that would do what you want. > BTW, I've tried also diffing and patching CR/LF terminated trees in Unix > mode. Patch failed to apply diff output (it was LF-terminated, IIRC) to > a CR/LF-terminated tree. Any idea why? Probably what happened was patch got confused because it saw CRLF line endings on the target file but just LF in the patch file, and so couldn't find any common matching context between them. In the case of a textmode mount, patch would see LF endings in both the patch and the target, and so the contexts matched up. > > Corinna might be able to clarify why this must be so. > > I would greatly appreciate if she does. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
