"D.J. Heap" <dj@shadyvale.net> writes:
> [snip]
> > I think diffs have been created like this on Windows as long as I
> > can remember -- I guess I just assumed that for patches to be as
> > cross platform as possible, the line endings had to be LF. Would
> > patch handle a CRLF hunk from a Windows box sent to a Linux box
> > (without any newline translation) on a eol-style native file
> > correctly? Is that an important use case?
> > It would be nice to fix the header inconsistency for sure, though.
> > I think that inconsistency causes some versions of patch to croak.
> >
> [snip]
> > I think the blame test failure is related to it's use of file_append
> > which opens the file in text mode...I'm not sure, though, and I'm
> > out of time at the moment. I'll have to look at it next week if
> > needed.
>
> The blame test turned out to be the path separators in the xml template.
>
> All tests should now be working again on Win32 after the tweaks in r15261.
Thanks!
> I didn't address or look closely at how to fix the diff format
> although I did test patch and if I do not fix the line endings then
> patch asserts and croaks.
So this is a real problem, okay. I've filed
http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2351
and if you can follow up there with information about which patch
program you used, that would be great.
-Karl
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Received on Tue Jul 5 22:05:10 2005