On Sat, 22 Apr 2000, David Ford wrote:
> I need a tool for comparing patch sets with other patch sets. I.e. I
> want to grab all the new parts of pre6-5 compared to pre6-3.
>
> Does such a tool exist or should I whip up a quick sed script?
It's a little harder than you think. Where patches collide, the context
gets confusing. What was three chunks in one patch may be four in another,
smaller patch. Why not just create two trees, apply two patches, then diff
them?
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