Re: xxdiff as a visual diff tool (shameless plug)

[Andrew Morton]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> It would be great to somehow split patches before feeding them to the
> patch. If you have one big hunk, and it fails because of one letter
> added somewhere in file, it is *big pain* to find/kill offending
> letter.

yup.  It's a *lot* easier if the diff was generated with `diff -1',
because that makes many more hunks.

There is sufficient information in a normal diff to turn it into
a `diff -1' diff, I think.  All it needs is for Tim^Wsomeone to code it.

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