Re: Patch and Cygwin

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> 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.