Re: [OT] patch splitting util(s)?

[Eli Carter <eli.carter@inet.com>]

Pete Zaitcev wrote:
>>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:10:43 -0700
>>From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
> 
> 
>>| > I'm aware of patchutils.  (Check the 0.2.22 Changelog ;) )  However, 
>>| > splitdiff doesn't do what I'm after, from my initial look.  Though now 
>>| > that I think about it, it suggests an alternative solution.  A 
>>| > 'shatterdiff' that created one diff file per hunk in a patch would give 
>>| > me basically what I want.
>>| 
>>| I moaned at Tim until he caved in and added an '-s' option
>>| couple of weeks ago. It should be in a fresh rawhide srpm.
>>| 
>>| Mind, you can do what you want even now, with -n (for line numbers)
>>| and a little bit of sh or perl, but all concievable solutions
>>| require several passes over the diff, which gets tiresome
>>| if you diff 2.4.9 (RH 7.2) and 2.4.18 (RH 8.0). The -s option
>>| does it in one pass.
>>
>>so when does this change show up at http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/ ?
> 
> 
> Tim pointed out that the option is -a, not -s. It should be
> present in 0.2.22.

Almost.  That does a per-file split, not a per-hunk split.  And per-hunk 
I have found makes splitting patches into their logical components 
_much_ easier.

Thanks for the clarification though!

Eli
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