On Thu, May 01, 2014 at 02:30:33PM -0500, Eric Berge wrote: > I was running "svn patch" with a patch I created with "git diff" and it > failed to apply, however it applies just fine with the default "patch" > command on my Rhel 6.5 system. > > This is due to the "extended header" information that git puts before the > actual diff in some cases. I validated this by removing the lines > beginning with "old mode" and "new mode" in the patch below (file "PATCH2") > and then "svn patch" applied the patch successfully.
Hi Eric, can you please re-send the patch which failed to apply as an attachment? It seem your mailer mangled the patch. The patch format is whitespace sensitive, unfortunately (e.g. tabs vs. spaces matter). Thanks!