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hassaanm
hassaanm

Reputation: 411

How to patch with a .diff file?

I found this patch on source forge (cocoa.diff), and it implies that I can patch using the cocoa.diff file. However, I can't seem to figure out how to use the .diff file.

Thanks for any help!

EDIT: I tried "patch p1 < cocoa.diff" and the output was "patch: ** Only garbage was found in the patch input." Does this mean that the .diff file is corrupt or incorrect? Also, I'm using Mac OSX 10.6.

Upvotes: 6

Views: 15241

Answers (1)

armel
armel

Reputation: 2580

the file cocoa.diff seems OK, however the link failed the first time I tried and returned some error HTML which indeed looks like garbage to patch. Your command seems nearly OK (lacks a dash: patch -p1 < cocoa.diff seems better).

Upvotes: 7

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