On 12/4/06, Jean T. Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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?
Nope, I get:
patching file path/to/file
(Stripping trailing CRs from patch.)
with GNU patch v2.5.8.
andrew
