Am 07.10.2011 11:28, schrieb Marco van de Voort: > In our previous episode, Graeme Geldenhuys said: >>> So while it could be used, I'd have to remember to run unix2dos over it >>> - that is, if people expect a Windows patch ( >> >> I don't think that is needed. I believe the 'patch' program will sort >> that out by itself. I have sent numerous patches to FPC and Lazarus >> (both those repositories are git ones on my Linux system). Nobody has >> ever complained that the EOL style was wrong. I also don't specify the >> --no-prefix when creating patches. Again, the 'patch' program can handle >> those a/... b/... prefixes for the committer without problems. > > I usually apply patches on FreeBSD, and in rarer cases Linux. > > Even up to date patch doesn't always process lineendings properly btw. I > have to dos2unix often on *nix too. > > Recently a lot of patches with incorrect filenames, or no filenames if the > patch is for a single file, or even not in universal format have been > submitted, and it takes some work (doable, but annoying) to apply them. > > Since the patches aren't tagged with what generated them, I assumed it was > GIT based.
git patches can be applied using http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpcbuild/scripts/florian/unix/svn-apply on unix. _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
