Ok, with a little better google finess I found this:
https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/36421/what-is-the-applypatch-tool-and-how-does-one-use-it
From the discussion I gather that It is a binary patch utility used by
Android hackers.
--
Soren 'tino (somian)
He's earthy, he's pithy, he's ...a bit astringent.
Think of him more as a "topical antiseptic" than as a snack
.
somia...@gmail.com https://instagram.com/samhain08/
On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 4:00 PM Soren <somia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Marco, thank you for your interest.
>
> This should have occurred to me, nice one, Marco:
>
> $ cygcheck -l git | grep applypatch
> /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
> /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample
>
>
> > About the second question, cygwin packages are NEVER
> installed in /usr/local
>
> Right, I thought not. Now all I want is to find out where applypatch comes
> from (where's the source) and see if it looks like a useful addition to my
> toolbox.
>
> With regards,
> Soren
>
> --
> Soren 'tino (somian)
>
> He's earthy, he's pithy, he's ...a bit astringent.
> Think of him more as a "topical antiseptic" than as a snack
> .
> somia...@gmail.com https://instagram.com/samhain08/
>
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM Marco Atzeri via Cygwin <cygwin@cygwin.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 09/02/2025 19:46, Soren via Cygwin wrote:
>> > Hello Cygwin community,
>> >
>> > I've got a small issue. Out there in the oosphere there is mention of a
>> > tool called "applypatch", and I went looking for it in cygwin pkgs.
>> Using
>> > the invocation
>> >
>> > `cygcheck -f applypatch'
>>
>> not the way to look for a package, see below.
>>
>> > I don't find any packages that supply "applypatch" or "applypatch.exe"
>> but
>> > now when I am writing this I recall seeing some connection to `git', I
>> just
>> > can't reproduce what I did to stumble across that.
>> >
>> > In addition to my question about "applypatch", I am wondering about
>> > something else. I've got git version 2.45.1, and I am puzzled by the
>> > existence of "git" in both /usr/bin and /usr/local/bin.
>> >
>> > $ type -ap git.exe
>> > /usr/local/bin/git.exe
>> > /usr/bin/git.exe
>>
>> $ cygcheck -p applypatch
>> Found 3 matches for applypatch
>> ..
>> git-2.45.1-1 - git: Distributed version control system
>>
>> but
>>
>> $ cygcheck -l git | grep applypatch
>> /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/applypatch-msg.sample
>> /usr/share/git-core/templates/hooks/pre-applypatch.sample
>>
>> so the only applypatch's seem potential hooks for git.
>>
>> About the second question, cygwin packages are NEVER
>> installed in /usr/local
>>
>> $ cygcheck -l git | grep bin/git
>> /usr/bin/git-receive-pack.exe
>> /usr/bin/git-shell.exe
>> /usr/bin/git-upload-archive.exe
>> /usr/bin/git-upload-pack.exe
>> /usr/bin/git.exe
>>
>> so /usr/local/bin/git.exe is not coming from the Cygwin package.
>>
>> Regards
>> Marco
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html
>> FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/
>> Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html
>> Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
>>
>
--
Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html
FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/
Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html
Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
