makepatch/applypatch beyond diff/patch

Ben told me that many in the SVN community are looking for a file
format that goes beyond the abilities of diff and patch, namely to
describe differences of whole directory trees.

I recommended him:

> ... the makepatch and applypatch programs by Johan Vromans. They are
> used widely in the perl community and have a file format based on
> the diff format that can describe changes to directory trees. You
> can get them from CPAN/authors/id/J/JV/makepatch-2.00_09.tar.gz.

I'm not an expert in the makepatch/applypatch innards, but as the
documentation states:

    Note that 'applypatch' only requires the 'patch' program. It does
    not rely on a shell or shell tools. This makes it possible to
    apply patches on non-Unix systems.

I'd just say: please give it a try.

-- 
andreas
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