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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: New KIO Slave: diff
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2004-06-30 12:44:51
Message-ID: 20040630124451.GL31481 () ashley ! olsen ! capsi ! com
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On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:56:56AM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote:
> I've written a KIO slave in the spirit of the other archive 
> slaves to view diff (patch) files. It shows which files are 
> patched in a directory view, and can extract specific patches 
> from the patch archive.
> 
> This is an early release. It is read-only. It does not support 
> directories; it displays all patches in the root of the diff. 
> It currently only supports context diffs. Finally, it does not 
> support .diff.gz files. This final item would be very useful.
> 
> If this interests anyone else, I'd very much be interested in a 
> collaborator.

Sounds interesting. Perhaps you should contact Otto Bruggeman
(otto.bruggeman at home.nl) , author of kdiff.

Support for arch's changesets would probably also be nice, but I'd have to
experiment with both kdiff and kio_diff to make sure there is actually a use
for that feature.

Rob
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Rob Kaper     | "Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had
cap@capsi.com | better learn baseball" -- Jacques Barzun

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