Re: [Monotone-devel] Perhaps strange request: partial per-file commit

[Thomas Moschny]

On Tuesday 15 January 2008, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> So, it would be also nice
> to have the "hunk restriction" feature for "mtn diff":
>
>     $ mtn diff file11:-2,-4

You can use filterdiff from the very useful patchutils[1] collection for that:

  mtn diff file11 | filterdiff -# 1,3,5-

would show hunks one, three and all hunks starting from the fifth.
Selecting hunks based on which lines they contain is also possible.

Regards,
Thomas

[1] http://cyberelk.net/tim/software/patchutils/

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