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From: Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il>
Subject: Re: How to edit/modify patches using emacs?
Date: Mon, 9 May 2005 00:54:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050509005411.3071661a@litshi.luna.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ekchn5dd.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp>

On Sun, 08 May 2005 23:45:34 +0900
Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> wrote:

> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:
> > You can force edit it (see the other answers), but I think the best
> > way to "edit" a patch, is to duplicate the source directory, apply the
> > patch on one copy, edit this copy of the source files, then invoke
> > diff  to create a new patch.
> 
> Note that editing a patch with emacs `diff-mode' active is actually
> fairly painless, because diff-mode takes care of keeping details like
> the line counts updated, offers convenient functions like hunk-
> splitting, makes it super easy to test your changes, etc.  I regularly
> edit patches directly because of diff-mode.
> 
> [A common reason to edit a patch is because it _won't_ apply otherwise:
> you basically look at the patch to see why doesn't match the source,
> edit the patch to test your guess, and if it then applies cleanly,
> you've got a nice record in the edited patch.]

In such cases I just prefer to apply the patch and fix the rejects, gives you a
better overall view.

Editing patches for is useful when I know what I want to fix for sending out a
patch and I don't feel like applying it, changing the source and re-diffing
(especially useful with large source, such as modifying patches for the X or
kernel source trees)

> 
> -Miles
> -- 
> "Suppose we've chosen the wrong god. Every time we go to church we're
> just making him madder and madder." -- Homer Simpson
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-05-08 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-05-08 11:23 How to edit/modify patches using emacs? Andreas R.
2005-05-08 11:43 ` Peter Dyballa
2005-05-08 12:09 ` Miles Bader
2005-05-08 12:19 ` Reiner Steib
2005-05-08 13:42 ` Pascal Bourguignon
2005-05-08 14:45   ` Miles Bader
2005-05-08 21:54     ` Micha Feigin [this message]
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4139.1115590433.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-08 23:38       ` Miles Bader
2005-05-09 19:52 ` Andreas R.
2005-05-09 20:48   ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-09 22:38     ` Miles Bader
     [not found]     ` <mailman.4311.1115678467.2819.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2005-05-09 22:53       ` Stefan Monnier
2005-05-09 23:41         ` Miles Bader
2005-05-10 19:39     ` Alan Mackenzie

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