Andrew McIntyre wrote: > On 8/24/06, Jean T. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On IRC she thought she first edited the file, then did the 'svn move'. >> >> Does anyone have any suggestions on how to apply this patch? >> Or suggestions for Laura on how to create a patch that renames a file? > > This seems to be a peculiarity of how svn creates patch files for > moves. Patch, at least on my machine never actually removes empty > files, and you need the old file to be there to remove its contents > for the patch to apply cleanly. So try: > > svn move rrefonlinebackupdbnowaitproc.dita rrefbackupdbnowaitproc.dita > cp rrefbackupdbnowaitproc.dita rrefonlinebackupdbnowaitproc.dita > patch -p0 -i derby1685_ref3.diff > # verify that rrefonlinebackupdbnowaitproc.dita is in fact empty, and: > rm rrefonlinebackupdbnowaitproc.dita
whew! that seems to have worked. I'll kick off a build to verify, then commit. thanks! -jean
