Large patch/diff refuses to apply

Alan Somers asomers at freebsd.org
Thu Oct 6 15:00:40 UTC 2016


On Thu, Oct 6, 2016 at 8:41 AM, Sean Bruno <sbruno at freebsd.org> wrote:
>
>
> On 10/06/16 08:23, Slawa Olhovchenkov wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 06, 2016 at 07:57:57AM -0600, Sean Bruno wrote:
>>
>>> I'm doing a large amount of change to ixgbe(4) in support of IFLIB
>>> implementations and running into failures when trying to apply large
>>> diffs.  This is causing phabricator reviews to be unuseable as well.
>>>
>>> I've setup two trees to test this.  The first tree is used to generate
>>> the diff and the second (vanilla) is used to apply the diff.  The entire
>>> patch fails to apply, so I'm assuming that the size of the diff is
>>> failing because of a sanity check or something.
>>
>> No. This is expanded/collapsed keywords issuse:
>>
>> ===
>> -******************************************************************************/
>> -/*$FreeBSD$*/
>> ===
>>
>> svn diff over repo generate patch w/ collapsed keywords.
>> At working copy all keywords expanded.
>>
>
> Ah, I see.  Thank you.
>
> I am regenerating the failed files now.  That seems to work (if I leave
> the keywords alone).
>
> sean
>

Also, I think the "svn patch" command (as opposed to plain "patch")
can deal with the RCS keywords.


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