Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > > Hello, > > I wish to use diff and patch on files with CR/LF newlines. I've > installed cygwin with DOS text file type. Diff produced a patch with > CR/LF. When I try to apply this patch, the modified files contain only > LF, and I have to run unix2dos on them. How can I make patch produce > output files with CR/LF in DOS mode? > > I've tried to search this in google and list archives, but "patch" > brought too many false hits :( .
patch is a tricky area in terms of line-endings. This is mostly explained in <http://www.cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2003-03/msg00492.html>. Patch can read in either binmode or textmode (depending on the mount and presense of --binary) but it always writes its output in binmode, which is what causes your CRs to go away. Corinna might be able to clarify why this must be so. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
