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Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:04:27 +0100
From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Patch 2.5.8: Problem patching dos text files
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 09:45:12PM -0500, Dao, Giathang wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to apply a diff patch to a tree of files containing binaries and windows text files.
> The binaries are patched correctly but the newlines in the text files are converted to unix newlines.
> 
> How can I prevent cygwin's patch from converting dos or crlf newlines to unix newlines?

You can't.  Patch has no mechanism to determine the file type of the
input file.  It creates a patched result from two input files, both
either text- or bimmode.  The result is a binmode file in the temp
dir.  This is copied back to the original localtion.

> I found a post dated 3+ years ago which describes the exact opposite behavior (his problem would have been my solution):
> 
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin/1998-11/msg00337.html

That was a bug.

Corinna

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