[Building Sakai] Problem with patch

[Daniel Merino]

Hi, Raad. Thanks a lot! It worked perfectly as you said.

Best regards.

Raad Al-Rawi escribió:
> Hi Daniel
>
> svn diff is only really designed to work with non-binary files.
> It is possible, however, to force some binary processing by switching 
> svn to use the standard diff command:
>
> svn diff --force --diff-cmd /usr/bin/diff -x -auN -r84409:84410 
> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/reference/branches/sakai-2.7.x/ > 
> parche_SAK-19179.patch
>
> then use the following to reconstruct:
>
> patch --force --strip=0 --input=parche_SAK-19179.patch
>
> haven't tested this exhaustively, so can't guarantee the results!
>
> Cheers
>
> Raad
>
> On 09-Jun-11 13:18, Daniel Merino wrote:
>> Hi everyone.
>>
>> Has anybody ever found this weird problem?
>>
>> svn diff -r84409:84410
>> https://source.sakaiproject.org/svn/reference/branches/sakai-2.7.x/>
>> parche_SAK-19179.patch
>>
>> patch -p0 --dry-run<  parche_SAK-19179.patch
>> patch: **** Only garbage was found in the patch input.
>>
>> The patch should add several binary images to reference. It seems that
>> it was merged to trunk with no problem.
>>
>> I have found nothing useful about this error in the web. Could it be a
>> character coding issue (i.e. a Windows patch inside a Linux server)?
>>
>> Thanks in advance.
>> Best regards.
>

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