Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/05/05/10:51:10
Hello, Brian!
Thank you for a prompt reply.
On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 06:50:43AM -0700, Brian Dessent wrote:
> 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>.
Wow! How did you locate this message?
I see it appearing in results for "patch newlines" but not for "patch
newline" (I use marc.theaimsgroup.com).
> 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.
So, my only option is having a hacked version of patch that writes with
CR?
BTW, I've tried also diffing and patching CR/LF terminated trees in Unix
mode. Patch failed to apply diff output (it was LF-terminated, IIRC) to
a CR/LF-terminated tree. Any idea why?
> Corinna might be able to clarify why this must be so.
I would greatly appreciate if she does.
With kind regards,
Baurjan.
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