Re: Paths in patch files

On Wednesday 07 February 2007 23:16, Grzegorz Kossakowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> The problem is that all paths (Index: etc.) in patch
> produced by Subclipse are absolute. It's not a big deal for Subclipse on
> another computer/filesystem because it has option to trim some early
> segments of path. However, TortoiseSVN tries to apply patch with paths
> as is and this obviously leads to an error (file not found or so).
> I've already asked[1] on Subclipse mail list and got response that
> absolute paths are expected from Subclipse and there is no bug. Now,
> TortoiseSVN cannot live with that format of patches so I would like to
> know your opinion on this subject.
> Which behavior is correct?

TortoiseSVN can apply patches with relative and absolute paths. If the paths
are absolute they need to be in windows form although both "\" and "/" can
be used as separators.

Looking at part of the patch:

Index: /home/grek/c2.2-trunk/blocks/cocoon-forms/cocoon-forms-impl/src/main/resources/org/apache/cocoon/forms/resources/js/DropdownDateTimePicker.js
===================================================================
--- /home/grek/c2.2-trunk/blocks/cocoon-forms/cocoon-forms-impl/src/main/resources/org/apache/cocoon/forms/resources/js/DropdownDateTimePicker.js
(revision 500240)
+++ /home/grek/c2.2-trunk/blocks/cocoon-forms/cocoon-forms-impl/src/main/resources/org/apache/cocoon/forms/resources/js/DropdownDateTimePicker.js
(working copy)

The absolute path starts with /home/grek and therefore TortoiseSVN cannot
map it to an absolute path on the filesystem.

We could do some guessing by looking in the current directory for common
paths but this would be guessing which is not the intention of absolute
paths :-)

Sorry, I guess this is a "Wontfix".

Tobias

-- 
       ___
  oo  // \\      "De Chelonian Mobile"
 (_,\/ \_/ \     TortoiseSVN
   \ \_/_\_/>    The coolest Interface to (Sub)Version Control
   /_/   \_\     http://tortoisesvn.net
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@tortoisesvn.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@tortoisesvn.tigris.org