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Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2001 09:08:02 -0500
From: Earnie Boyd <earnie_boyd AT yahoo DOT com>
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To: David Rees <d DOT rees DOT l AT usa DOT net>
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Subject: Re: patch problem with forward/backward slashes in patch file
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David Rees wrote:
> 
> Kevin Wright emailed me a suggestion that allowed me to find a
> solution (thanks!), but I still think there may be something wrong
> with patch.
> 
> First of all the "-d ." in my call is redundant. I had been using it
> for testing, but feel free to ignore it in tracking down the problem.
> 
> Also, as I hope I implied (but didn't say) in my previous email,
> altering the diff file to use backward slashes as follows also causes
> patch to run fine:
> |--- src\testcases\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\ZipTest.java   2001/03/02 16:01:01     1.3
> |+++ src\testcases\org\apache\tools\ant\taskdefs\ZipTest.java   2001/03/07 00:11:39
> 
> All this said, using "-p0" or "-p" solves the problem. However, from
> my understanding, patch should do -p0 by default since its a relative
> directory. So what I think seems to be happening is that patch doesn't
> recognize a relative path inside a patch file as relative if it uses
> forward slashes.
> 

Hmm...  Are you sure it's a Cygwinized patch?  What does the output of
`cygcheck patch' give?

Earnie.

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