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Comment: About patching on Windows

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I let you find the tools with google :Eclipse/Subclipse, Tortoise, Subversion client, patch.exe, todos.exe, etc.

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Note that below no longer works (or hardly) since Windows 7. I suggest rather to use Cygwin if you use a version below WIndows 10. I have personnaly installed with Git Bash, which comes embedded with WIndows 10.

To patch on Windows you have to download patch.exe. But you may encouter EOL problems with patch.exe. That's why I prefer to use Eclipse's "Apply Patch" option wich is great to use with clipboard. If you get issue with Subclipse and work on Windows you may try Tortoise's "Apply Patch" option. If I get problems with Tortoise I then use the patch command. Something to understand is that Tortoise actually use "SVN merge" so in certains cases problems arise. To avoid EOL problems with the patch command, I use a bat file patchdos.bat :

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where todos is and exe to download (search with Google). Of course you will have to deal with path. But at this stage I guess it's easy...
I just learned from https://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=508633 that the "--binary" option may be used in that case, did no try yet...
I tried --binary today on a Windows XP system with patches created on the same system: it does not work :/

 

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