Glen Mazza wrote:
I've submitted them frequently, but, given a patch,
how does one apply it to a file in a working
directory? CVS has the "diff" command to create the
patch, but I don't know what its opposite command is,
to merge the patch into a file.
The command is 'patch', originally written by
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Glen Mazza wrote:
> I've submitted them frequently, but, given a patch,
> how does one apply it to a file in a working
> directory? CVS has the "diff" command to create the
> patch, but I don't know what its opposite command is,
> to merge the patch into a file.
The command is 'patch', ori
Thanks--I couldn't find the patch.exe in WinCVS (using
1.3 beta, and not their 1.2 version.) I downloaded a
GPL port to Windows from here:
http://www.circlemud.org/maillist/1998-01/0083.html.
The version I downloaded works, only issue is that I
need to save the file-to-be-revised into Unix format
If you install WinCVS you get a patch.exe you can use. Often you have to
tweak the command line parameters a bit (especially -p) and sometimes
you have to edit the patch file itself. It's best if you put the
directory with patch.exe in your PATH so you can easily call it from the
right directory (r
I've submitted them frequently, but, given a patch,
how does one apply it to a file in a working
directory? CVS has the "diff" command to create the
patch, but I don't know what its opposite command is,
to merge the patch into a file.
(BTW, using Windows 2000.)
Thanks,
Glen
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