From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Patch and Cygwin Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:35:57 +0100 Message-ID: <43A27C6D.4040502@student.lu.se> References: <43A1ACC1.9090805@student.lu.se> <43A1B2A1.2020907@student.lu.se> <43A20542.1050405@student.lu.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1134725050 29052 80.91.229.2 (16 Dec 2005 09:24:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:24:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 16 10:24:09 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnBoS-000386-St for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:23:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnBjg-0000Gh-A5 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnB56-0004jX-Vv for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:36:49 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EnB54-0004jH-NI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:36:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EnB53-0004j8-DI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:36:45 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.159] (helo=pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EnB7O-0005tx-QK; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 03:39:11 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.168.123.121] (83.249.218.244) by pne-smtpout2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (7.2.069.1) id 43A1777B0003BD67; Fri, 16 Dec 2005 09:35:57 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:47850 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii wrote: >>Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:07:30 +0100 >>From: Lennart Borgman >>CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, Emacs Devel , >> Eli Zaretskii >> >>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.