Thanks for the advice and links guys, I'll report back if I find anything
that works well.
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gl
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerry Van Baren" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Rockbox development" <rockbox-dev@cool.haxx.se>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 5:34 PM
Subject: Re: Editing .patch files?
gl wrote:
Hi,
Each changed file has an obvious header. If you don't intend to change
that file, simply delete the section to the next file header.
That part I figured out : ).
Within a file, each change section has a flag showing the starting line
and number of lines that were removed in the section and then the
starting line and number of lines that were added.
Example:
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@
The above example, starting at line 26 I "deleted" 6 lines and then
added 8 lines (actually, I changed 6 lines and then *added 6 lines*).
'added 2 lines' right?
Keeping track of which lines were removed and which added seems
confusing, but I'm sure I could get the hang of it. Worse though is that
any line number changes need to ripple downwards. So if I delete a hunk
part-way through, all the other hunks (from the same source file) would
need to be adjusted accordingly, and on large files with large changes
this gets nightmarish fast.
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gl
Yup, my bad. There are patchfile editor programs that I've seen but not
used. I've always either hand edited my patch files or created a
different subdirectory tree for the two (or more) patches and segregated
my patches (sometimes after the fact which can be difficult as you so
rightly point out :-( ).
This looks interesting, but probably doesn't help you today :-/
http://www.gerv.net/software/patch-maker/
(http://books.mozdev.org/html/mozilla-app-b-sect-2.html)
Emacs mode:
http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue27/marsden.html
vim built in support:
vimdiff
Graphical diff creation and editing tools:
http://meld.sourceforge.net/
http://home.catv.ne.jp/pp/ginoue/software/gtkdiff/index-e.html
Oh, oh, looks like you are running Windows for your email:
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Some of the above run on Windows but everything will be more difficult.
gvb
