Gavin Lambert wrote:
> Quoth Olivier Sannier <mailto:obones@free.fr>:
>
>>> Here is the output I get from "patch -i patchfile.diff":
>>>
>>> can't find file to patch at input line 5
>>> Perhaps you should have used the -p or --strip option?
>>>
> [...]
>
>>> This is the patch.exe from the UnxUtils package, under windows. I
>>> also tried with the one from MinGW, same result. I also tried with
>>> the -n option, it complains that there is only garbage in the file.
>>>
>>> Thanks for any pointers
>>>
>> Anyone ?
>>
>
> You might be running afoul of line endings -- the Windows svn client
> probably produces output with CRLF line endings, and the patch utils
> might be expecting to see only LF endings (since that's the UNIX
> convention). Try converting the file beforehand.
Tried that and it did not help.
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Received on Fri Aug 25 11:47:50 2006