[Gambas-user] IDE patch functionality

[Tobias Boege]

On Sun, 20 Jan 2013, Beno?t Minisini wrote:
> - There must not be local absolutes paths in the patch file, only 
> relative ones.
> 

Done by editing the in-memory patch buffer before saving it. This seemed to
be the easiest solution to me.

> - You should not call extern utilities (like 'find') if you can do what 
> you need in Gambas directly.
> 

You are right.

BTW, I have done the patch editing above by using Split(sPatch, "\n") to
easily work with each line. This may be a place where calling an extern
utility, namely sed, is more useful but I would need GNU extensions to make
it easy. What is the directive here?

> - That patch feature should be accessed through a special dialog that 
> will allow to see the diff before applying it (there is already a "diff" 
> highlighting in the 'gb.eval.highlight' component).
> 

There is a window for that now. The patch can be viewed read-only. I changed
the menu structure in FMain accordingly. Feel free to change the names of
the menu items.

> - That dialog should allow to apply the patch to some specific files, 
> not all. If it is possible of course.
> 

I wrote a small Patch parser class which allows to easily select or deselect
individual hunks from the patch, coalesce different patches to one and
potentially more. You can actually compose a patch of different files at
present but not save it.

Hope, it's better.

Regards,
Tobi

P.S.: Try to click on the Expander on FPatch. I will write a separate email
for this.