"There don't appear to be any changes" even though there are

[baobabKoodaa]

This is my first time trying to use patch-package. I followed the instructions, but it doesn't recognize my changes. What am I doing wrong? More details below.

1. I added "postinstall": "patch-package" inside scripts inside my project's package-json.
2. I ran npm i patch-package
3. I modified the package that I had problems with. In particular, I modified this file: node_modules/react-simple-infinite-scroll/package.json.
4. I ran npx patch-package infinite-scroll

I'm seeing this:

• Creating temporary folder
• Installing react-simple-infinite-scroll@0.0.1 with npm
• Diffing your files with clean files
⁉️  Not creating patch file for package 'react-simple-infinite-scroll'
⁉️  There don't appear to be any changes.

I'm guessing patch-package doesn't support me modifying package.json inside a node module?

[ds300]

Package.json files are ignored by default because npm adds absolute paths into them when installing packages so it creates noise. See https://github.com/ds300/patch-package/blob/master/README.md#options for how to configure what to ignore.

[baobabKoodaa]

Okay, thank you for the answer. I ended up using a different way to patch.

[MariusCatanoiu]

Okay, thank you for the answer. I ended up using a different way to patch.

What way? :D

[baobabKoodaa]

I forked the project and released the patched fork on npm.

[dmatora]

I am having same issue getting ("There don't appear to be any changes") with trying to patch node_modules/@pooltogether/hooks/node_modules/@pooltogether/bnc-onboard/dist/esm/connect-5e218485.js which technically is not part of the repo
I've created patch manually but when I try to apply it I'm getting an error

[mitchmeyer1]

any answers? having the same issue on a .ts file!

[reyraa]

Had the same issue patching msw.
I created a test local repo, added the package.json file of msw to the test repo and committed. Then applied the changes I needed and ran git diff.
Now all I had to do was fixing the paths.

I had

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 78e36be..df071bb 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json

which I changed to

diff --git a/node_modules/msw/package.json b/node_modules/msw/package.json
index 78e36be..df071bb 100644
--- a/node_modules/msw/package.json
+++ b/node_modules/msw/package.json

Now I have the content that I need, I just have to make patch-package to create the patch file. For this I just made a random change in a source file in the msw package and ran npx patch-package msw. Then I replied the content of the patch file with what I got from git diff.

[YewoMhango]

@ds300 I tried using npx patch-package @smooth-dnd/react --include package\\.json$ (since I had modified the package.json file of @smooth-dnd/react) as you suggested, but it was still showing no changes. Or was I doing something wrong here?

Regardless, I applied the method suggested by @reyraa and that worked for me

[vallemar]

I also have this problem, I tried --include package\\.json$ but it doesn't work

[semiaddict]

I also have this problem, I tried --include package\\.json$ but it doesn't work

This seems to work: npx patch-package package-name --exclude (see #142 (comment))

[YG1ee]

@semiaddict Thanks for the solution. It totally worked for me!

[bertyhell]

I used this, if you only have changes in package.json, and you still want to ignore package-lock.json:

npx patch-package package-name --exclude "" --include package.json

[stevenqzhang]

@bertyhell your solution didn't work for me for some reason but @semiaddict 's did