Re: Patch and Cygwin

> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 16:31:19 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: cygwin@cygwin.com > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > >What's wrong with the patched file having CRLF on Windows? > > > > > It is the default line endings on Windows so normally that is what you > want. However

Re: Patch and Cygwin

Eli Zaretskii wrote: What's wrong with the patched file having CRLF on Windows? It is the default line endings on Windows so normally that is what you want. However if you have a file with LF line endings instead then don't you probably have that for a reason? I can of course not know the

Re: Patch and Cygwin

> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 10:05:14 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], cygwin@cygwin.com > > I think so. The file file-lf.txt has CRLF line endings after patching, > otherwise everything is fine. What's wrong with the patched file having CRLF on Windows? >

Re: Patch and Cygwin

Eli Zaretskii wrote: The result is that the only option that seems to be able to handle the mix of line endings is Cygwin using DOS line endings with patch 2.5.9. (The only thing that did not work was preservation of line endings in the patched file, but that seems to be a small problem here.)

Re: Patch and Cygwin

On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 01:07:30AM +0100, Lennart Borgman wrote: > This is a summary of my tests with Cygwin patch and different line > ending styles. (Only LF and CRLF are tested here.) > > I have downloaded patch 2.5.9 from > ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/diffutils/patch-2.5.9.tar.gz and compiled it

Re: Patch and Cygwin

> Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:07:30 +0100 > From: Lennart Borgman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: cygwin@cygwin.com, Emacs Devel , > Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I urge people who participate in this thread to please keep emacs-devel off the list of the addressees, as this issue is off-topic there.