Tim's patch management tools - Revision history

Glenn: +cat

2008-02-10T19:02:56Z

+cat

Tim Bird: Add reisolate

2007-06-11T17:05:36Z

Add reisolate

Tim Bird: Add diffinfo stuff

2007-06-11T17:04:08Z

Add diffinfo stuff

Tim Bird: create page

2007-04-26T19:20:05Z

create page

New page

Here I plan to post the patch management tools I have written for working with Linux inside Sony.
We use a combination of quilt and arch for our SCM for the kernel, and I use diffinfo (with pcomp), qdiff, and reisolate when analyzing patches. Some of the functionality of diffinfo overlaps with stuff
available in quilt, but some does not. See the [[Diff And Patch Tricks]] page for other
utilities for manipulating patches.

== diffinfo ==
will put diffinfo downloads here when wiki upload is fixed

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 from stdin.
-== Download ==
+=== Download ===
 [[Media:diffinfo]]
-== Command line usage ==
+=== Command line usage ===
 <pre>
 Usage: diffinfo [options] [<patch_file>]
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      -V, --version    Print the version number
 </pre>

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	== diffinfo ==		== diffinfo ==
−	~~will put~~ diffinfo ~~downloads here when wiki upload~~ is ~~fixed~~	+	Diffinfo reads a patch file, and produces information about the number
		+	of lines changed and number of hunks for each file referenced.
		+	In this regard, it is similar to diffstat. However, diffinfo
		+	can also produce a list of hunks related to specific file patterns
		+	or matching a regular expression, and can optionally write out only
		+	those hunks to a new patch file.
		+
		+	This allows you to extract sub-patches from a single large patch.
		+
		+	If no file is specified on the command line, the program reads the patch
		+	from stdin.
		+
		+	== Download ==
		+	[[Media:diffinfo]]
		+
		+	== Command line usage ==
		+	<pre>
		+	Usage: diffinfo [options] [<patch_file>]
		+
		+	-h, --help Show this usage help.
		+	-v, --verbose Show verbose output (including hunk details)
		+	-f, --force Force continuing even if errors are encountered
		+	-d Show info in 'diffstat' format (without histogram)
		+	-p <path> Show info for files matching path <path>
		+	-q Specify NOT (inverse) operation of path match.
		+	-s <pat_string> Show info for pattern string <pat_string>
		+	-a Specify AND operation with a second pattern match
		+	-o Specify OR operation with a second pattern match
		+	-i Specify NOT (inverse) operation of pattern match
		+	-n <file> Write matching hunks to new patch <file>
		+	If <file> is "-", then output to stdout.
		+	Note: This writes the entire patch unless used
		+	with a matching option (-s or -p).
		+	-l show a simple list of files
		+	-V, --version Print the version number
		+	</pre>