From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Patch and Cygwin
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:18:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <upsnxpi90.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43A20542.1050405@student.lu.se> (message from Lennart Borgman on Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:07:30 +0100)
> 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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-16 8:18 UTC|newest]
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2005-12-16 0:07 ` Patch and Cygwin Lennart Borgman
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2005-12-16 8:35 ` Lennart Borgman
2005-12-16 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
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