Re: RCS 5.7 Patches

[Jason Tishler <Jason dot Tishler at dothill dot com>]

Louis,

On Mon, Apr 16, 2001 at 11:15:43AM -0400, Louis Bohm wrote:
> I really do not get what I am doing wrong... I made sure that there are
> no CR's in the patch
> foo.patch: ASCII English text
> And when I do a od -c I see the \n's but not the \r's.
> 
> And Bellow is the result of the patch:
> 
> lbohm@yoda:/mnt% patch -p 1 -i foo.patch

I finally figured out was is causing your problem -- white space
differences between the patch and source.

Try the following:

    $ patch -l -p1 --dry-run <~/foo.patch

The -l (as in the letter L, not the number 1) option should solve your
problem.

Jason

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