NAME¶
splitpatch - split a patch up into files or hunks
SYNOPSIS¶
splitpatch [options]
DESCRIPTION¶
Divide a patch or diff file into pieces. The split can made by file or by hunk
basis. This makes is possible to separate changes that might not be desirable,
or assemble a patch into more coherent set of changes.
The hunk option makes it possible to compare similar patches on a hunk-by-hunk
basis using a tool like
interdiff(1) from the patchutils package.
OPTIONS¶
- -H, --hunk, --hunks
- Split patch by hunks instead of the default: by file.
- -h, --help
- Display help and exit
- -V, --version
- Output version information and exit.
EXAMPLES¶
Have you ever been working on code, gone off on a side tangent and then realized
you don't have a patch for the original issue you set out to address? When you
run "diff -u" or some other diff command, you discover that you have
made multiple sets of changes; some you want to submit, others you don't. What
you really want to do is break those changes apart and apply only the ones you
want. This is where splitpatch comes into play, breaking up the patch by
source file:
splitpatch changes.patch
Or to split the patch file into individual hunks which can later be applied
using the
patch(1) command:
splitpatch --hunks changes.patch
ENVIRONMENT¶
None.
FILES¶
The
--hunk option writes sequentially numbered files in the current
directory named for the source file to be patched followed by the sequence
number: "*-NNN.patch".
Otherwise, the split patch files are named by the source file being patched.
STANDARDS¶
None.
AVAILABILITY¶
https://github.com/benjsc/splitpatch
SEE ALSO¶
dehtmldiff(1) editdiff(1) filterdiff(1)
fixcvsdiff(1) flipdiff(1) grepdiff(1) interdiff(1)
lsdiff(1) patch(1) recountdiff(1) rediff(1)
splitdiff(1) unwrapdiff(1) wiggle(1)
AUTHORS¶
Program was written by Peter Hutterer <peter@cs.unisa.edu.au>.
This manual page was written by Jari Aalto <jari.aalto@cante.net>.
Released under license GNU GPL version 2 or (at your option) any later
version. For more information about the license, visit
<
http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html>.