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Re: Bug with Cygwin's 'quilt' is actually in 'patch'
- From: Christopher Faylor <cgf-use-the-mailinglist-please at cygwin dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 01:47:15 -0400
- Subject: Re: Bug with Cygwin's 'quilt' is actually in 'patch'
- References: <51BFEB6E dot 2040404 at codespunk dot com> <51BFF1F9 dot 4040205 at codespunk dot com> <51C277A4 dot 20709 at codespunk dot com>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:31:48PM -0400, Matt D. wrote:
>I've been looking further into this and it appears as though the problem
>is in 'patch' not 'quilt'. quilt is actually a collection of bash
>scripts and calls patch to do the actual patching.
>
>Using the same example I provided earlier in the thread, the same error
>occurs when calling patch directly:
>
>$ patch Imakefile patches/test.patch
>
>Running dos2unix on test.patch will allow the patch to apply
>successfully. However, this is WRONG. Imakefile and the initially
>created test.patch both use CRLF line endings. The patch should
>definitely NOT apply by introducing actual disparity.
>
>To summarize, the patch to Imakefile (CRLF) will apply if it is
>converted to LF line endings. Using the '--binary' switch seems to be a
>workaround for this issue.
Sorry but we're emulating Linux here. You shouldn't have CRLF endings
on your text file if you want the tools to work reliably.
cgf
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