Re: splitting large patch files into smaller ones

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Aug 23, 2007, 09:43 UTC
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0708231042120.20400@racer.site>
In-Reply-To: <200708221929.l7MJTgiL012452@agora.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu>

Hi,

On Wed, 22 Aug 2007, Erez Zadok wrote:

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> I was looking around for a tool that would allow me to split a large 
> patch file into individual snippets and couldn't find one.  So I wrote 
> one in perl.  It takes a patch file and creates individual small files, 
> one for each combination of a filename listed in the patch, and a patch 
> snippet (starting with an '@@' line).  Each '@@' snippet gets an index 
> number and a new filename, prefixed with the appropriate header ("diff 
> ...", ---, and +++ lines) so it's a valid patch file on its own.

You can do that with "git add -i" and with "git gui" AFAIK. I even started some code to split hunks in "git gui", but it was pointed out that that code was not complete, and I did not have time to finish it.

Ciao, Dscho