Patching files with spaces in the name
Antonio Carlos Venancio Junior
antonio at php.net
Thu Apr 7 04:31:30 PDT 2005
Alex,
do you have some examples?
Alex Varju wrote:
> While I'm sure this question must have come up in the past, I can't find
> anything in the archives. Is there any good method for patching source
> files with spaces in the name?
>
> I'm looking at creating an eclipse-devel port for Eclipse 3.1m5a. I've
> already got something working now that allows me to build on AMD64 (see
> the freebsd-java archives if you are interested). Now I'm trying to
> clean up my work, and one of the problems I've encountered is that
> Eclipse uses spaces in many of their paths. If I take a diff for
> changes I've made to files within one of these directories, the patch
> won't apply again afterwards.
>
> Are there any ports that deal with similar problems in an elegant manner?
>
> Thanks,
> Alex.
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Cya
Antonio
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