Yep, CVS's patches use relative paths to files based on the project
root which it maps to a particular asset in the CVS repository.
Thanks for working through that with me Mark. Hence, the patches are
always good on any computer with the same project without having to
remove leading directories from file paths.
Bradley
On May 19, 2006, at 4:27 PM, Bradley Wagner wrote:
> Ok, see I had never had to tell it which folders to ignore in CVS.
> I'm fairly new to patching in SVN. It looks like you always have to
> knock folders off the absolute paths. Now, I'm really interested to
> see how CVS handles this. Mostly mis-understanding on my part about
> SVN's diff alogrithm and the output it generates.
>
> Bradley
>
> On May 19, 2006, at 4:16 PM, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
>> Bradley Wagner <bradley.wagner@hannonhill.com> wrote on 05/19/2006
>> 03:49:16 PM:
>>
>>> Thanks, I'll test those out. I might venture onto to Eclipse user's
>>> list and check on this apply patch thing. I'm struggling to see how
>>> Apply Patch could work cross platform in Eclipse when the paths are
>>> absolute and represented completely differently in Windows vs.
>>> Linux/
>>> Mac. I guess I could also look at how CVS keeps file paths in its
>>> patches also.
>>
>> In the past I have applied patches from Windows on my Mac. The Apply
>> Patch dialog has a lot of settings to let you tell it what to do.
>> But I
>> never had to really do anything on my Mac that I did not have to
>> do on my
>> Windows machine. I tell it the number of folders to ignore, and
>> occasionally I had to tell it to ignore whitespace.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
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