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1 ===========
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2 INFORMATION
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3 ===========
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5 This is a precompiled version of the "patch" standard tool for
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6 Windows. It was compiled using the MSYS framework.
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8 The binaries originate from the "Git for Windows 1.9.5" package
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9 (https://msysgit.github.io/). The build instructions have been
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10 provided on the discussion group of Git for Windows [1]. They are
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11 copied/pasted below for reference.
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16 UPSTREAM PROJECT
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19 URL to the upstream project:
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22 License of patch: GPLv2 (GNU General Public License v2)
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24 Copyright (C) 1988 Larry Wall "with lots o' patches by Paul Eggert"
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25 Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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29 ======================
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30 BUILD INSTRUCTIONS [1]
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31 ======================
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33 The easiest way to find out about this is to install the Git SDK, then
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34 run
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36 pacman -Qu $(which patch.exe)
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38 to find out which package contains the `patch.exe` binary. It so happens
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39 to be patch.2.7.5-1 at the moment. Since this is an MSys2 package (not a
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40 MinGW one, otherwise the patch utility would be in /mingw64/bin/, not
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41 /usr/bin/), this package is built from the recipes in
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43 https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages
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45 The `patch` package is obviously built from the subdirectory
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47 https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/tree/master/patch
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49 and the PKGBUILD file specifies that the source is fetched from
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50 ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/patch/patch-2.7.5.tar.xz:
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52 https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/900744becd072f687029b0f830ab6fe95cf533d6/patch/PKGBUILD#L14
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54 and then these two patches are applied before building:
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56 https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/900744becd072f687029b0f830ab6fe95cf533d6/patch/msys2-patch-2.7.1.patch
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58 and
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60 https://github.com/Alexpux/MSYS2-packages/blob/900744becd072f687029b0f830ab6fe95cf533d6/patch/msys2-patch-manifest.patch
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62 As you can see, some light changes are applied, i.e. `patch.exe` will
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63 always write in binary mode with MSys2, and the executable will have a
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64 manifest embedded that allows it to run as non-administrator.
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66 Ciao,
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67 Johannes Schindelin
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70 [1] https://groups.google.com/d/msg/git-for-windows/xWyVr4z6Ri0/6RKeV028EAAJ