Andrew McIntyre wrote: > On 12/4/06, Laura Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... >> Step 3 >> If your machine is a different architecture from the machine on which >> the patch was created, convert the file. >> >> Question - Aren't all patch files diff files? How will I know that the >> patch was created on a different machine? I use Windows, what should >> I look for to know that the patch was created in UNIX? Is the syntax: >> unix2dos patch.diff or unix2dos > patch.diff ? > > I think step 3 should be removed. All patch files will be unified > format diff files, as output by svn diff. Any patch program should be > able to compensate for line-ending differences, since presumably on > Windows you'll be using Cygwin's patch program. So, there should never > be a need to convert the line-endings in the file. >
I get errors on Linux if I don't convert the file. You don't have this problem? -jean
