From: Robin Rosenberg <robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com>
To: Joe Fiorini <joe@faithfulgeek.org>
Cc: git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Apply patch on server w/o git
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:57:38 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200803252057.38326.robin.rosenberg.lists@dewire.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA08AA77-A9EA-4490-B1BE-25E8B7402290@faithfulgeek.org>
Den Tuesday 25 March 2008 19.25.58 skrev Joe Fiorini:
> I am trying to generate a diff patch on my local dev box. I want to
> upload this patch to a server (running Windows Server 2008) and apply
> it to my staging code. The catch is: I cannot install git on the
> server to accept the patch. Therefore, I would like to use a generic
> patching tool (such as patch from the GnuWin32 tools). I tried
> generating a unified diff with the following command:
>
> git diff -U > diff.patch
>
> and then tried to apply it using:
>
> patch -u -i ..\other_dir\diff.patch
You can try git-apply instead of patch. It is a bit smarter (and not
outsmarting itself either).
-- robin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-25 19:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-25 18:25 Apply patch on server w/o git Joe Fiorini
2008-03-25 18:41 ` Bryan Donlan
2008-03-25 19:23 ` Joe Fiorini
2008-03-25 19:46 ` Jan Hudec
2008-03-25 19:57 ` Robin Rosenberg [this message]
2008-03-26 3:03 ` Joe Fiorini
2008-03-29 18:46 ` Jan Hudec
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