Re: [Winmerge-user] Merging in diff files using WinMerge?

[Kimmo V. <ki...@ko...>]

> > Sounds like you're talking about trying to take the text output of a
> > UNIX-like "diff" utility, and then wanting to merge one set of
> > differences into another version of the same file?   Not sure WinMerge
> > does this.   Cool idea though.  :-)
> 
> Yes, this is what I'm trying to do. We get a lot of patches submitted,
> and since I'm using WinMerge anyway, it would make sense to use it if
> it's capable of it.
> 
> Seeing as the program is called Win*Merge* and the home page says "Merge
> differences" as one of the features, I wondered if there was something I
> didn't understand in the UI. But maybe it's not implemented.

It's not implemented.  There is RFE "695741 Generate and apply 
patches".

> > Actually, I'm not sure WinMerge even lets you save the
> > output of the WinMerge "diff" to text output.
> 
> That would be my next question. ;)

..same RFE :)

WinMerge saves diff.txt to $temp path.  That's diff output from files 
you are merging.

Regards,
Kimmo
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