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From: Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: patch -e from stdin broken?
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On Feb 21 15:35, pedro_alves AT portugalmail DOT pt wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> While looking at why 'quilt annotate' is broken in Cygwin, I found
> something fishy on 'patch' in ed mode.  Looks like reading the patch
> from stdin is broken.  Reading the patch from a file with -i works
> ok.  Here is how to reproduce:
> 
> $ touch a.txt
> 
> $ cat << EOF > b.txt
> > a new line
> > EOF
> 
> $ diff -e a.txt b.txt > ab.diff
> 
> $ cat ab.diff
> 0a
> a new line

The diff file also contains a third line with just a single dot.
If I feed this to patch from stdin, everything's fine:

$ patch < ab.diff
can't find file to patch at input line 1
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
File to patch: a.txt
$ cat a.txt
a new line
$

Where's the problem exactly?


Corinna

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