Griping about diff and patch
Submitted by raevnos on Wed, 2007-11-14 17:06.
The diff and patch programs really need:
- A way to mark a file as deleted (Instead of turning it into an empty file by deleting every single line in the diff.)
- A way to rename a file (Instead of zeroing out the old name and creating a file with the new name and all the contents in the diff.)
- A way to specify the permission bits to use when creating a file such as a script that should be executable.
- A way to create and delete empty directories.
I should see about making such a beast.
Or we could just actually get around to making the subversion repository public (Or I could upload my git copy of the current devel branch).
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shar
I think the old-fashioned way to do that is to pack the diff into a shar archive that also includes relevant shell commands to run before and after the diff. Heh.
Something along those lines
Something along those lines was what I was thinking of doing, actually, though not as a shell script. But that's a better, more self-contained option than mine (Using a perl script and a modified diff file format)
Will it run on Windows? ;)
Will it run on Windows? ;)