Re: "The Patch Seems Outdated! The File Line...And The Pathcline Do Not Match" - But they do!

BenTaylor wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I have looked in the archives but have not been able to find an answer
> to my issue. I have created several patches for an open source
> project called dasblog. However, when I try to test apply the patches
> on a clean source tree I get the error message:
>
> "The patch seems outdated! The file line <snipped> and the patchline
> <snipped> do not match!"
>
> In reality the two <snipped> tags contain the contents of the line,
> but both are exactly the same, and appear exactly the same when I view
> them both in Notepad2 (with CR LF and whitespace showing).
>
> Can anyone tell me how to solve this issue? Am I doing something
> wrong?
>
> If it helps, I have written the issue in full with screenshots on my
> blog here:
>
> http://bentaylor.org/The-Patch-Seems-Outdated-The-File-LineAnd-The-Patchline-Do-Not-Match.aspx

Which version of TSVN/TortoiseMerge are you using? This should have been
fixed a long time ago: the reason the patch doesn't work is because of
the unicode markers at the beginning of the file.

Stefan

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