[TxMt] diff bundle broken? seems to fail on multi-file-diff

[Allan Odgaard]

On 10. Feb 2007, at 12:06, m.zeckinger wrote:

> i was searching this list and also the web for an easy way to use the
> diff bundle or how to apply a diff to a whole directory. strangely
> this does not work as expected.
>
> i am having a quite large diff file that should patch various files in
> a directory in several sub directories. if i am trying
> Bundles->Diff->Apply Patch to Files...
> and selecting the base directory from where it should patch, strange
> things happen.
> The Output for all files is the following:
> File to Patch
> Skip this patch? [y]
> Skipping patch.
>
> is there anything wrong with the current diff bundle? or is it maybe
> not working with more than one file to patch?

Does it work if you run patch from the shell?

I find that quite often patch will not be able to find the proper  
files (even though the paths in teh diff file should indicate them)  
and goes into an interactive mode (which would certainly fail for the  
TM command)