#205 Possibility to create and apply patches

[Jerzy Kaczorowski]

What I am missing are the following features:
1. Creating a patch (via 'cvs diff') and saving it to a file.
2. Applying a patch (via 'patch').

------- Additional Comments From Jerzy 2000-10-06
12:11 -------

That seems to be a good topic for a TCL macro...

[Oliver Giesen]

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I could probably do this ASAP but for the second part I'd
need to know where to get the "patch" program. Is this a GNU
tool or something like that? I definitely don't have it on
my machine... which raises the question of how to distribute
this... could we include it in the installer? Alternatively
I could hide the corresponding macro if no patch.exe could
be found...

[Jerzy Kaczorowski]

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Patch is a GNU tool and it should be quite easy to get one
(might be Cygwin comming with it). We used to distribute one
with WinCvs 1.2.
I am not sure whether it's required to distribute it - it will
probably increase the installation size quite a lot and most
people will not use it.
It may be usefull to just mention it in the installtion and maybe
provide and the link.
The macro should probably assume 'patch.exe' being in the
PATH and eventually provide dialog box to prompt for it
(persistent of course)