From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264467AbTDXVxV (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:53:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264468AbTDXVxV (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:53:21 -0400 Received: from zeke.inet.com ([199.171.211.198]:65228 "EHLO zeke.inet.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264467AbTDXVxU (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:53:20 -0400 Message-ID: <3EA85FA2.6060500@inet.com> Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 17:05:22 -0500 From: Eli Carter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20021003 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pete Zaitcev CC: "Randy.Dunlap" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [OT] patch splitting util(s)? References: <3E9B2C38.4020405@inet.com> <20030414215128.GA24096@suse.de> <200304150047.h3F0lXc22483@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <20030415131043.1cdcbe44.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030424164503.A995@devserv.devel.redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Pete Zaitcev wrote: >>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 13:10:43 -0700 >>From: "Randy.Dunlap" > > >>| > 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 --------------------. "If it ain't broke now, Eli Carter \ it will be soon." -- crypto-gram eli.carter(a)inet.com `-------------------------------------------------