Well it hangs no matter what I do, I've also tried: patch bug.patch
And it still hangs... On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 2:31 PM, marco atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 7/23/2012 9:20 PM, Robert Dailey wrote: >> >> I'm using Cygwin on Windows 7 x64 and when I run just 'patch', it >> hangs and never returns. If I do 'patch --help', help is printed just >> fine. I'm not sure why this is happening. >> >> Any help getting this working? >> > > Are you sure to have read the manual ? > From "man patch" > --------------------------------------------- > NAME > patch - apply a diff file to an original > > SYNOPSIS > patch [options] [originalfile [patchfile]] > > but usually just > > patch -pnum <patchfile > [cut] > ------------------------------------------------ > if you give no patchfile "patch" is waiting the diff > from stdin, so it is not hanging at all > > Marco > > > > -- > 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 > -- 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
