Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Extracting a standard diff

[Jan Hudec]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 12:17:23 +0100, Jacob Gorm Hansen wrote:
> > I use something like:  tla changes --diffs | filterdiff -o '*{arch}*'
> > 
> > [`filterdiff' is in the "patchutils" package, at least in debian.]
> 
> Thanks, that helps somewhat. How do you handle newly added files then? They
> are represented as .../new-files-archive/mynewfile... which 'patch' does not
> seems to be able to magically convert into just 'mynewfile'. Time for some
> sed hacking?

No. Time for some tla hacking. Just persuade tla to use appropriate
--label option. It was just reported as a bug. Consult bugs.gnuarch.org.

> It seems to me that tla changes should just have a 'extract as standard
> diff' option.

Yes, it should. Report it as a bug (it is done by sending a message with
subject starting with `[BUG]'.

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