Re: Where is patch? - problems with patch.exe on w32

[Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 21:04:19 +0100
>>From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>
>>The trouble I had turned out to be one with line endings. For some 
>>reason patch does not behave as Emacs on w32 when it comes to line 
>>endings. A line and should just be a line end in my opinion. The patched 
>>text file should retain its original line format. If this is possible 
>>then that would really give me and other using w32 a fair chance of 
>>doing useful work. So I hope to get in contact with the patch maintainer 
>>about this.
>>    
>>
>
>I use the GnuWin32 port of Patch on Windows, and it works fine for me.
>Since I checkout Emacs files with -kb option to "cvs up", they (the
>text files in Emacs source tree) have Unix-style EOLs.
>
But I am just using the method for checkout that is shown on the 
Savannah page. I think that should work. That is why I am suggesting 
that patch should be a little bit more friendly.

Unfortunately I do not even understand exactly what you are doing.