Re: Want to create a patch utility

On March 2, 2005 22:53, Girish Balakrishnan wrote:
> John, I want functionality of svn merge which can take a unified diff!!

This is impossible because the unified diff does not even contain the
information required for a full merge. How does it know files which have been
deleted or added, or moved? I read somewhere that it was in the long term
plans of the subversion team to develop a new patch format that would include
that information, but for the time being it doesn't exist.

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Simon Perreault <nomis80_at_nomis80.org> -- http://nomis80.org
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