From: Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Martin Blais <blais@iro.umontreal.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: xxdiff as a visual diff tool (shameless plug)
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 02:27:47 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3C9B0723.703DC486@zip.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020321061423.HIXG2746.tomts17-srv.bellnexxia.net@there> <20020322092712.GA233@elf.ucw.cz>
Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> It would be great to somehow split patches before feeding them to the
> patch. If you have one big hunk, and it fails because of one letter
> added somewhere in file, it is *big pain* to find/kill offending
> letter.
yup. It's a *lot* easier if the diff was generated with `diff -1',
because that makes many more hunks.
There is sufficient information in a normal diff to turn it into
a `diff -1' diff, I think. All it needs is for Tim^Wsomeone to code it.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-22 10:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-03-21 6:13 xxdiff as a visual diff tool (shameless plug) Martin Blais
2002-03-21 10:43 ` Tim Waugh
2002-03-22 9:27 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-22 10:27 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2002-03-22 18:19 ` Martin Blais
2002-03-22 18:25 ` Martin Blais
2002-03-22 21:44 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-23 20:46 ` Martin Blais
2002-03-23 23:39 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-25 6:53 ` Paul Mackerras
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