> -----Original Message-----
> From: Daniel Honig [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 12:44 PM
> To: Struts Developers List
> Subject: RE: Selective diff?
>
>
> Just for my own curiosity is it possible to solve
> this problem by branching the module that contains the patch?
>
> You would have a nasty time merging it back togehter, but
> this is better than having a copy of the entire tree locally
> for each patch?
>
> Isn't this what branching is for? Am I missing something?
No, this is not what branching is for. Branching is used to maintain
multiple versions of the code in the CVS repository. What Eddie is trying to
do is create diffs for patches to the code. You wouldn't want to be making
changes to the repository just to prepare patch files.
--
Martin Cooper
>
> -Daniel
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Eddie Bush [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 3:32 PM
> To: Struts Developers List
> Subject: Selective diff?
>
>
> Problem:
>
> I've got a pending patch on RequestUtils already for
> selectApplication.
> I also made another modification (added getApplicationPrefix
> to return
> the current module prefix) to RequestUtils while bringing the
> validator
> into 1.1-compliance. This means I have two different bugs I need to
> pick certain changes out for selectively.
>
> Question:
>
> Is there a way I can tell cvs diff -u to give me just a
> certain section
> as a patch - or is it possible for me to modify the patch to
> exclude the
> already posted patch for selectApplication?
>
> Not being 110% familiar with how the diff does it's thing
> (and noticing
> there is apparantly some config up top telling it where to apply the
> patch), I'm reluctant to believe it's a simple matter of editing the
> patch file. Should I then have a seperate CVS tree for each patch -
> which only contains changes relevant to a given bug? (Man - that's a
> nasty solution, but it's the best one I can come up with! That's
> certainly a lot of work just to keep changes seperate!)
>
> --
> Eddie Bush
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