Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Unsucessful application of patches, withoutany error

[James Livingston]

On Sat, 2005-05-07 at 12:59 -0500, John A Meinel wrote:
> I think what happened is that he upgraded his version of tla, which
> started to generate the new format of patches. Yes "arch-tag: " is the id.
> If you look at the "mod-files-index" in the changeset, you will see:
> 
> ./sources/rb-sourcelist.c
> i_Implementation_of_main_\"Sources\"_display_widget
> 
> Notice that in that changeset, there is \" for the quotes. I believe
> earlier versions of tla interpret this literally as 2 characters, while
> later versions understand that it is an escaped quotation mark.
> 
> If you know of an earlier patch which modifies the same file, you can do:
> 
> tla get-changeset \
>    address@hidden/rhythmbox--bugs--0.9--<the-patch> ,p
> cat ,p/mod-files-index
> And you should see that the " is not escaped.
> 
> This is more for your edification than anything.


Thanks for your help. It's been much appreciated.


James "Doc" Livingston 
-- 
"It's times like this I wish I's listened to my Mother." 
"Why, what did she say?" 
"I don't know, I didn't listen."

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