Needed: Scary patch tool

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Thu May 16 16:36:54 EST 2002


Hi Mikal,

On Thu, 16 May 2002 15:43:54 +1000 Michael Still <mikal at stillhq.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

try dirdiff.

> 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...

See my other email to you.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/




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