Re: problems applying patches created by tortoiseSVN in linux

Demian Turner wrote:
> Hi Stefan
>
>
>> "patches created on windows but not with Tortoise have EOLs
>> automatically dealt with in the patch program".
>>
>> So I'd like to know if he used e.g. "patch.exe" to create those
>> patches that worked, or 'svn diff > patchfile'.
>
>
> I'm afraid I don't create the patches, I just apply them, ie projects
> devs send stuff into SF and our Trac site on a regular basis and
> after a while the pattern emerged that patches created with
> tortoiseSVN never work.
>
> So it's an empirical observation, sorry I can't offer more detail
> than that. I can almost guarantee however that the patches were
> created with patch.exe which must be what's invoked when you use the
> Tortoise GUI.

Why ever would you think that? TSVN is an SVN client, so it uses SVN diff.

> "svn diff > patchfile" patches created on linux has
> never caused a problem.

I just tried using TSVN and svn diff to create a patch from the same
folder and (surprise) the files are identical.

Simon

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