On 24.10.2011 11:41, Hans-Emil Skogh wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This is sort of a long shot, but I thought I'd drop a post on the
> list anyway.
>
> I have been doing some patch applying as of late, and some of them on
> modified working copies. This invariably leads to that some patches
> generates rejected patch hunks. This is expected since some of the
> modifications in the working copy conflicts with the data provided in
> the patchfile.
>
> The question is: Would it make sense to let TortoiseMerge give a
> little bit more help when it comes to resolving conflicts in
> patchfiles? Right now the rejected hunks are shown in a new window.
> Would it be possible to use the three way "conflict" view instead?
> That is; showing the rejected hunks inline with the rest of the
> source as conflicted rows and letting the user select what lines that
> should end up in the "patched" file.
>
> The three files would then be: - Original The file before patching -
> Patched The file after svn patch - Conflicts The "Patched" file, but
> with the rejected hunks forcefully* applied
>
> The lines that differ between "Patched" and "Conflicts" would then be
> used to denote which lines that are conflicted.
>
> *Forcefully here means doing a best guess of where the hunk should be
> applied. If no part of the hunk matches, I guess that line numbers
> would be a best guess of where to put it.
>
> I'm not sure if this would be feasible to do in TortoiseMerge today,
> but it sure would come in handy when applying large patch files on
> "dirty" working copies.
The problem is that the rejected hunks could not be applied, and for a
reason: the patch algorithm couldn't find a place where they could be
put. TMerge can't apply them and show a conflict, because they can't be
applied at all.
Since we don't have the original file we also can't just apply them at
their original position the patchfile indicates, so that's not possible
either.
Stefan
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