Idea: visual diff editor ("backport helper")

[Pavol Rusnak <prusnak suse cz>]

Hi all!

    I would like to thank you for meld, because it is the best 
diff/merge tool I have seen and I really love that I could easily edit 
files while diffing them. I have one enhancement idea for it:
    I often backport patches from higher versions into lower versions. 
For example, there is serious bug in XYZ which is fixed in SVN. I take 
SVN patch from revision 123456 to 123457, but this patch usually does 
not apply cleanly against the latest stable version of XYZ. It would be 
great if it was possible to open source code in one window and 
corresponding diff/patch in the second window. Meld would highlight 
places where this patch could not be applied and one could correct it to 
apply cleanly (because meld allows to edit files!). What do you think of 
this feature?

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Best Regards / S pozdravom,

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