Re: Check in a new version of source tree ?

On May 23, 2007, at 03:11, MikeW wrote:

> I have the patch - but that doesn't get the code back into SVN !
>
> As far as I know, there is no tool that will apply a patch file
> intelligently to a repository - and I would still have to tell it
> which old-dir-name corresponds to which new-dir-name, etc.

If the patch is just changes to existing files, it would work fine,
but since you have renames happening as well, you're right, that
can't be expressed in a diff so something more involved is necessary.

> What I would really like is a visual diff type tool showing the
> repo tree
> in one pane and the 'new' source in another.
> I could then manually line up renamed files and directories, using
> the tool's inbuilt file-diffing to help locate renamed files with
> probabilistic matching ;) [I'll be busy !]

svn_load_dirs.pl already does that... to an extent. It's not a GUI
you can click and drag with your mouse, but it's a quasi-GUI on the
command line.

Of course, I too would love a "real" GUI of svn_load_dirs.pl, and I
expressed some ideas for such a tool in this message:

http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2005-09/0747.shtml

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Received on Wed May 23 10:54:00 2007