On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 04:51:15PM +0200, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> stsp_at_apache.org wrote on Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 10:05:15 -0000:
> > Author: stsp
> > Date: Wed Sep 15 10:05:14 2010
> > New Revision: 997249
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=997249&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Add an --old-patch-target-names option to svn patch.
> > This option is useful in two cases:
> >
> > 1) A patch contains names like
> > --- foo.c
> > +++ foo.c.new
> > and should be applied to foo.c.
> >
> > 2) A patch contains names like
> > --- foo.c.orig
> > +++ foo.c
> > and should be applied in reverse to foo.c, e.g. to undo prior application
> > of the patch.
>
> What happens if a user forgets to supply the new option? (Does svn
> complain that 'foo.c.new is nonexistent/unversioned'?)
$ svn patch test.diff
Skipped missing target: 'foo.new'
Summary of conflicts:
Skipped paths: 1
> For case (2): suppose I have such a patch (was emailed to me). I
> applied it using 'svn patch $patchfile'. Now I want to unapply it; so
> so I use 'svn patch --rd $patchfile' or 'svn patch --rd --optn $patchfile'?
> AIUI, currently only the latter will work?
Which one works depends on the way path names appear in the patch.
Say you have a diff produced with svn diff.
That will work with either combination of options.
$ svn diff
Index: alpha
===================================================================
--- alpha (revision 2)
+++ alpha (working copy)
@@ -1 +1,2 @@
alpha
+aaa
You need the new option only to handle cases where people used e.g. the
UNIX diff tool to create a patch using left/right names they made up
while producing the diff.
> Is the UI "'svn patch' always uses the filename in the /^+++/ line"?
Yes. By default, that's the name that is used.
If you reverse the diff, the filenames get swapped as well.
So if you use the --optn option, the filenames get swapped again, or not at
all, depending which way you look at it :)
This UI may not be ideal, and I'm open for suggestions on how we could
improve it. Maybe there's a way to handle this without user interaction,
or a better name for the new option?
The UNIX patch tool prompts for a filename when it cannot find a target.
We could do the same, defining yet another prompt callback type.
But I don't like the fact that UNIX patch does not do tab-completion in its
prompt. I think the lack of tab-completion really affects usability.
So if svn had a prompt for this, I'd like it to support tab-completion.
So the new --optn option is an easier way to implement this.
Maybe it's sufficient? Note that having the option around doesn't hurt
even if we decide to implement prompting later.
Stefan
Received on 2010-09-15 20:44:11 CEST