Needed: Scary patch tool
Grant Morphett
grant at gmorph.com
Thu May 16 16:23:43 EST 2002
dirdiff might fit the bill if you want to check things line by line. Check it
out.
cheers
On Thu, 16 May 2002 15:43:54 +1000 Michael Still scribbled:
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>Hey folk.
>
>I have a version of some code which works, and a version which doesn't.
>It's not my code, so I don't fully understand it. My plan is therefore to
>do a diff between the two versions, and produce a patch.
>
>I would then like some what of applying each individual change in the
>patch separately -- so that I can change a line at a time and see which
>one introduced the breakage.
>
>Ham fisted I know, but I'm out of ideas...
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>Any suggestions on how to do this?
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>Thanks,
>Mikal
>
>PS: The code is the linux APM code. It turns out APM worked on my X21 for
>2.4.17, but not 2.4.18. The next step is to try to find out why...
>
>--
>
>Michael Still (mikal at stillhq.com) UMT+10hrs
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>
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Grant Morphett
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