Hi
Not directly wine related but I'm sure also useful to others.
It was said on this list that the patches should be able to be applied with patch (-p1) patch.diff, hence the inlining in the mail. But the patch tool doesn't know anything about cvs. In the generated patch are infos about the diff'd versions. So for applying a patch in my view it would be best to update the sandbox to the version mentioned in the patch, apply the patch (which should work without error), then update to HEAD again. Because if you don't have the same file (maybe because the patch was from an older version) it won't apply anymore. I know that the unified format helps if there were small changes. Isn't there a way to do it with cvs? I mean it can generate diffs, maybe also apply (but I didn't find anything in the manual). Or general question: How do others work with patches? Always with the patch tool? Any switches I overlooked?
(This problem came up as I'm trying to create and maintain a patch so it can be applied to the official distribution. But that's somehow useless if it won't work with newer versions than the one were the patch was created against, hence my idea with updating back and forth.)
Thanks
bye Fabi
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Fabian Cenedese