[Buildbot-devel] Anyone else running tryPatch tests succesfully on windows?

[Marcus Lindblom]

Marcus Lindblom wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I've had constant errors on the tryPatch test for all supported VCs 
> (svn, cvs, darcs, mercurial, git) on my Vista x64 computer, and I've 
> managed to cobble together a fix by doing something a bit backwards, 
> namely replacing \r\n with \n.
> 
> Dustin was rightfully a bit confused by the fix, and as am I now that I 
> think about it, so I'd like to rule out it being my computer and all. 
> (I'm using git's patch.exe at the moment.)

This seems to be the cause. I retried with GnuWin32's patch.exe, which 
made the tests pass.

However, that patch does not work well on Vista with UAC (it lacks the 
proper manifest).

Does anyone know where to get a working patch.exe?

Cheers,
/Marcus