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tool to display patch file
What tools exist to display patch files? A text editor is usually good enough. ColorDiff can add color. Ideally though the tool would also show intra-line differences like KDiff3.
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Patching .iso files
sometimes I have only little bandwidth. Also I have access to a machine with high bandwidth via ssh over the low bandwidth line.
So let's say, there's a new version of my favorite live system.
The ...
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How to include added and removed files to a unified diff of a CL in perforce
I want to create a unified diff or patch using p4 describe -du or p4 diff2 -u, to apply later with patch utility. But the problem I encounter that these commands skip the content of added/removed ...
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How to save diff output between two directories?
I'm running
diff -rq linux-4.15-rc9/ ubuntu-bionic/ > ubuntu.diff
but the output is just a bunch of lines with:
Files linux-4.15-rc9/tools/perf/util/metricgroup.c and ubuntu-bionic/tools/perf/...
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How to only add lines using patch?
I'd like to be able to use diff & patch in order to write new lines to a file. To clarify what I mean a bit:
Original file: test1.repo
exclude=mongo*
exclude=sqlite*
exclude=postgresql*
New file:...
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How do I get a good directory difffile I can use to patch/what to use for patch
I'd like to make a clean diff of a directory that allows me
to later use a gui patch program for windows to apply the diffile.
If possible I don't want to have to deal with hardcoded paths in the ...
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