Re: Exchange of diffs

[Kai Willadsen <kai willadsen gmail com>]

On 24 August 2012 17:38, Fabian Kiss <headrevision gmail com> wrote:
> Hi Meld people,
>
> One feature I would really appreciate: To be able to exchange a diff with
> another Meld user.
>
> Possible solution: You compare two (or more) local files and export that
> diff as a single file which comprises the two files as well as the
> information which file to compare with the other. You send that file to
> another Meld user (eg. by IM) and she exports it to her Meld. Meld creates
> the two files locally (/tmp) and the diff is triggered.
>
> What do you think about it?

If I understand correctly, you're just talking about being able to use
Meld to create and apply a patch? You can already create patches for
single files within Meld (from a file comparison, go to "File->Format
as patch"), though you can't currently do that for whole directories.

The second part of this is applying a patch within Meld. This is an
old request, as has had several implementations over the years, none
of which have actually made it in yet. The latest is Piotr's patch
view mode (see https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=674557),
which looks pretty good. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find the
time to review it properly... but certainly people testing it out and
reporting their experiences in that bug would help to get it accepted.

cheers,
Kai