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Re: TuxnTosh file rename
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2008-04-25 09:43:31
On 25/04/2008 15:18, Evan Hisey said the following:
> On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:24 AM, Duncan Webb
<duncanfreevo.org> wrote:
>> On 23/04/2008 22:11, Evan Hisey said the
following:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 12:18 AM, Duncan Webb
<duncanfreevo.org> wrote:
>>  >> On 23/04/2008 06:50, Evan Hisey said the
following:
>>  >>
>>  >>
>>  >>> Duncan-
>>  >>  >    Would it  be possible for you to
rename the Tux'n Tosh TV .fxd and
>>  >>  > .png to TuxnToshTV? I can not find
a way around the problem of trying
>>  >>  > to patch a file with spaces in the
name. This will make it lot easier
>>  >>  > to make patches to update teh
TuxnTosh theme.
>>  >>
>>  >>  May be to use underscores would be
better.
>>  >>
>>  >>  Duncan
>>  > That would work well also. Just need to
remove the white space for
>>  > patch and diff to be happy.
>>
>>
>>  I don't think that spaces should be a problem,
after a little test.
>>
>>  To generate a patch the simplest way is to use svn
diff, so you can cd
>>  to the freevo directory and type:
>>
>>  svn diff src/skins share/ > my-patch.patch
>>
>>  If you want to include a module that is not in svn
then you can add it with:
>>  # svn add path/to/new.py
>>  and the svn diff will include this too.
>>
>>  HTH
>>
>>
> The problem is that diffs work fine, but the patch
command does not
> handled spaces. This turned out to be a known
limitation of the patch
> command. It  is refered to as the Unusual Filename
problem. If you can
> apply  patches by SVN then that might work but I am
unaware of how to
> do that.


Works for me,

Made a change to the fxd, did a svn diff, removed the fxd,
svn update, 
patched from the diff, no problem.

Duncan

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