Re: Apply patch on server w/o git

["Bryan Donlan" <bdonlan@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 2:25 PM, Joe Fiorini <joe@faithfulgeek.org> wrote:
> 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
>
>  and I got the error:
>
>  "patch unexpectedly ends in middle of line" ... "Only garbage was
>  found in the patch input"
>
>  It might be a problem with how I'm using patch, and if so, forgive
>  me.  If not, then how can I generate a generic diff format from git so
>  I can do what I want?
>
>  Thanks all!
>  Joe Fiorini

Just a guess, but the gnuwin32 tools might not like unix line endings.
Try opening and re-saving in wordpad (or vim :set ff=dos, or $insert
your favorite method here).