[darcs-users] applying patches on windows

[S. Alexander Jacobson]

Except I am seeing the same problem if I receive the patch via email 
rather than scp and apply it in DOS rather than bash.

Are you saying that cygwin is corrupting files even in this case?

-Alex-

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Juliusz Chroboczek wrote:

>>>> I think I am experiencing a newline problem, but don't know how to
>>>> resolve it.
>
>>> Are you using Cygwin?
>
>> I tried it both from DOS and from bash/cygwin and get the same
>> results.
>
> That's irrelevant.  If you have the Cygwin versions of scp, sshd and
> gzip, you are using Cygwin whether you run them from the Cygwin or the
> native shell.
>
> For a quick workaround, please remount all of your Cygwin mountpoints
> in binary mode, and try again.
>
> Cygwin is designed to silently corrupt your data files on occasion.
> The only way to be safe is to completely uninstall Cygwin from your
> system and replace it with native tools (such as Putty and the Mingw/MSYS
> suite).
>
>                                        Juliusz
>
> ** CRM114 Whitelisted by: Juliusz.Chroboczek at pps.jussieu.fr **
>

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