Re: Patch and Cygwin

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

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>>Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:07:30 +0100
>>From: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
>>CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>, 
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
>>
>>This is a summary of my tests with Cygwin patch and different line 
>>ending styles. (Only LF and CRLF are tested here.)
>>
>>I have downloaded patch 2.5.9 from 
>>ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/patch-2.5.9.tar.gz and compiled it 
>>using Cygwin. I have used this patch and the patch that currently comes 
>>with Cygwin to do some tests of patch and diff when the files to compare 
>>and patch have different line ending styles. I have also made this test 
>>using MSYS and GnuWin32 utilities.
>>
>>The result is that the only option that seems to be able to handle the 
>>mix of line endings is Cygwin using DOS line endings with patch 2.5.9. 
>>(The only thing that did not work was preservation of line endings in 
>>the patched file, but that seems to be a small problem here.)
>>    
>>
>
>I think this is off-topic on emacs-devel, so I will post a meaningful
>reply only to the other adressees.  Here I will only say that your
>conclusions are wrong, and that your tests work for me with a variety
>of other Diff/Patch combinations.
>  
>
Please do. I CC:ed you because I thought you had objections. If you give 
me other options I will add them to the tests. You may also suggest 
other tests.

But I do not think this is OT on the devel list, but the discussion 
around it is.