Re: [fossil-users] Can fossil be used to apply a diff patch?

2015-04-18 Thread Ron W
On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 6:41 PM, to...@acm.org wrote: Thank you but I wanted this for a Win7 machine, not Linux. (I have MINGW installed but its 'patch' is a bit unstable as it crashes most of the time besides not being available on most Win7 machines.) Thanks, anyway. I guess I need to

Re: [fossil-users] Can fossil be used to apply a diff patch?

2015-04-17 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 17, 2015, at 2:23 PM, to...@acm.org wrote: Can fossil be used to apply a diff patch (such as that created by the diff command)? Fossil itself doesn’t do that. You use the patch(1) utility for that, which expects a unified diff. (“fossil diff” produces output in that format by

Re: [fossil-users] Can fossil be used to apply a diff patch?

2015-04-17 Thread bch
Note also that you can tailor your diff output w/ fossil set diff-command eg: fossil set diff-command diff -bu On 4/17/15, Warren Young w...@etr-usa.com wrote: On Apr 17, 2015, at 2:23 PM, to...@acm.org wrote: Can fossil be used to apply a diff patch (such as that created by the diff

Re: [fossil-users] Can fossil be used to apply a diff patch?

2015-04-17 Thread tonyp
Thank you but I wanted this for a Win7 machine, not Linux. (I have MINGW installed but its 'patch' is a bit unstable as it crashes most of the time besides not being available on most Win7 machines.) That's why I was hoping fossil would be able to eat its own ... diff Bundle is not good when

Re: [fossil-users] Can fossil be used to apply a diff patch?

2015-04-17 Thread Warren Young
On Apr 17, 2015, at 4:41 PM, to...@acm.org wrote: I was hoping fossil would be able to eat its own … diff patch(1) is the tool Larry Wall was famous for writing before he created Perl. It is one of those tools complex enough that there are no clones. There is a fork around licensing issues.