Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <4098F133.FF888288@dessent.net> Date: Wed, 05 May 2004 06:50:43 -0700 From: Brian Dessent Organization: My own little world... MIME-Version: 1.0 To: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: newline in patch command output References: <20040505125151.GA20299@ata.cs.hacettepe.edu.tr> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Reply-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Baurjan Ismagulov wrote: > > Hello, > > I wish to use diff and patch on files with CR/LF newlines. I've > installed cygwin with DOS text file type. Diff produced a patch with > CR/LF. When I try to apply this patch, the modified files contain only > LF, and I have to run unix2dos on them. How can I make patch produce > output files with CR/LF in DOS mode? > > I've tried to search this in google and list archives, but "patch" > brought too many false hits :( . patch is a tricky area in terms of line-endings. This is mostly explained in . 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. Corinna might be able to clarify why this must be so. Brian -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/