Re: [Evolution-hackers] Patch tool

[Andrew Sobala <aes gnome org>]

Ralf Engels wrote:
> Hi guys,
> Just finished some hacking for evolution.
>
> And now my problem:
> It took some time testing so the official branch is now somewhat
> different from my old checked out resources.
> And in addition I fixed two seperate problems (again) and would like to
> split up the patch.
>
> This means that the patch between the new cvs and my original checkout
> has 14000 lines and I would also need to split up the "real" changes
> into two different patches.
>
> How are you doing this?
> Is there a tool to help me. Going through the patch by hand is rather
> tiresome.
>   

If you're working in a directory checked out of CVS, "cvs diff -u" will 
only show the delta created by you and not the changes that happened in 
the repository.

Splitting  one patch into multiple ones is harder.... :-P

--
Andrew