It's a cvs diff -c, rather than a straight diff -c against other
sources.
Cvs diff tosses on some additional information which patch complains
about, but it's ok to ignore.
And you can blame MS Outlook for any mime encoding issues of my
email.s
--
Rod Taylor
This message represents the official view of the voices in my head
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>
Cc: "Rod Taylor" <rbt@zort.ca>; "Neil Conway"
<nconway@klamath.dyndns.org>; "Bruce Momjian"
<pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>; "PostgreSQL Patches"
<pgsql-patches@postgresql.org>
Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2002 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] Basic DOMAIN Support
> "Christopher Kings-Lynne" <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au> writes:
> > Just a quick questions. Every time I try to apply one of these
patches
> > (patch < domain.patch) in the pgsql directory checked out from
latest CVS, I
> > get all sorts of bad hunk errors and stuff. Do these matter?
>
> Probably.
>
> > How do I apply a patch?
>
> I noticed that Rod's message was (rather badly) MIME-encoded. You
may
> have to undo the encoding to get a clean patch file to apply. Or
maybe
> it's something else; I've not tried to apply his patches yet, only
> eyeballed them. But I imagine Bruce would've bounced the earlier
patch
> if he had difficulty applying it.
>
> regards, tom lane
>