On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 11:31:48PM -0400, Matt D. wrote: >I've been looking further into this and it appears as though the problem >is in 'patch' not 'quilt'. quilt is actually a collection of bash >scripts and calls patch to do the actual patching. > >Using the same example I provided earlier in the thread, the same error >occurs when calling patch directly: > >$ patch Imakefile patches/test.patch > >Running dos2unix on test.patch will allow the patch to apply >successfully. However, this is WRONG. Imakefile and the initially >created test.patch both use CRLF line endings. The patch should >definitely NOT apply by introducing actual disparity. > >To summarize, the patch to Imakefile (CRLF) will apply if it is >converted to LF line endings. Using the '--binary' switch seems to be a >workaround for this issue.
Sorry but we're emulating Linux here. You shouldn't have CRLF endings on your text file if you want the tools to work reliably. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
