perhaps what is needed is a tool which can allow for the "automagic"
application of a patch
- extract the patch from a file (mail message or whatever)
- show the text which is "outside" the actual patch
- show the list of files that it touches
- indicate whether it will go in clean and highlight those files where there
are conflicts/fuzz
- show each individual patch hunk and the before and after code
- provide a "big red switch" with apply/reject/"mail a question back to the
user"/"store to one side for a mo" options
would make applying/filtering patches a *lot* easier
or does such a tool exist?
i could see all the people at the apex of the pyramid using it
give it a nice GUI (well we have to have a war about the implementation
language, gui toolkit [tcl/tk, java, kde or gtk] and whathaveyou) and bob's your
uncle (well actually john is :-)
-- simon can i write it? maybe! will i help? sure!- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/