Someone sent in a patch for one of my modules. I want to apply the patch.
This did not work:
C:\temp>applypatch --verbose -dir Net-Daemon Net-Daemon-5.10-support.patch
Validate input.
Patch kit apparently okay.
Verify source directory.
Source directory apparently okay.

A diff -r in a cygwin window of a copy of the dir showed that there were no changes, and indeed
the ChangeLog for the module was unchanged.

Within my cygwin window, I tried patch as shown further below.
I started gettign a long series of questions, as you see.
Is this a bad patch, or am I doing something wrong?

$ patch -p0 -dNet-Daemon < Net-Daemon-5.10-support.patch
can't find file to patch at input line 4
Perhaps you used the wrong -p or --strip option?
The text leading up to this was:
--------------------------
|diff -ruad Net-Daemon/ChangeLog Net-Daemon-fixed/ChangeLog
|--- Net-Daemon/ChangeLog 2010-03-12 14:38:33.000000000 -0800
|+++ Net-Daemon-fixed/ChangeLog 2010-03-12 14:45:56.000000000 -0800
--------------------------
File to patch:

In reply to How to apply a patch on Windows? by mnooning

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