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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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  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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