Martin Cooper wrote: >><snip/> >> >I don't believe there's an option to 'cvs -diff' part of a file. It's >possible that 'patch' has an option to only apply part of it, but I don't >have cygwin installed here, so I can't check that. > >It's possible that you might be able to modify the patch file, but I've >never tried it myself. You'd need to try it and verify that 'patch' does the >right thing before you submit the patches. > Yeah - I think having seperate trees would be easier for me to manage. I could pull a "virgin" tree and copy it easily enough - and just treat that one as "sacred" (no modifications go into it whatsoever -- apart from an occassional update - so I have it to copy around)
>>Not being 110% familiar with how the diff does it's thing >>(and noticing >>there is apparantly some config up top telling it where to apply the >>patch), I'm reluctant to believe it's a simple matter of editing the >>patch file. Should I then have a seperate CVS tree for each patch - >>which only contains changes relevant to a given bug? (Man - that's a >>nasty solution, but it's the best one I can come up with! That's >>certainly a lot of work just to keep changes seperate!) >> >Yah, that might be the safest approach, ugly as it is. > :-/ Ok, well, thanks for the confirmation. I suppose that, for now, that "works". >-- >Martin Cooper > -- Eddie Bush -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
