Re: Generating patches from diff viewer?

[Alexey Rusakov <ktirf users sf net>]

On 27.05.2005 18:52, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> Is there a way to make a patch file (i.e. the output from diff) 
> directly from the diff viewer in meld?  Sometimes it would be 
> convenient to send a patch in an e-mail or bug report directly from 
> what I'm looking at rather than dropping to the command line and 
> trying to remember the locations of both files -- or worse if its over 
> CVS.
>
> If this feature isn't there, I'd like to suggest it.  I'm even willing 
> to work on this patch -- I do a fair bit of Python hacking.  Of 
> course, there's lots of different options people like to use to 
> generate patches, so this would probably involve the addition of a new 
> configuration page also.  And it might be cool to generate a patch of 
> off a single change (or selection of changes, even) in the diff viewer.
This is already requested: 
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158071 . As far as I see, it 
is not yet implemented.

--
 Alexey "Ktirf" Rusakov