Hi, thanks for the useful critique, for which to simplify things I'd
prefer to reply to one thing at a time if that's OK; and first up is:
On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 17:40:33 +0000
Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> - patch against the actual original file rather than something from
> stdin: the patch file headings such as:
>
> --- - 2005-12-06 02:27:58.437196000 -0500
> +++ /tmp/annotateoutput.1.gz.19281 2005-12-06
> 02:27:58.000000000 -0500
>
> make it impossible to use patch automatically.
Thanks very very much for pointing that out. Should be easy to code,
assuming I correctly understand the format, (I'm working on this
typo-tool, which is why all the typo bugs are boilerplate). Would you
say if the following would be what's needed:
--- /usr/share/man/man1/annotate-output.1.gz 16:08:58.000000000 -0500
+++ /tmp/annotateoutput.1.gz.19281 2005-12-06
02:27:58.000000000 -0500
...or if that's wrong, (I'm not a maintainer), suggest what the better
format should be?
Or consider the source code (shell script) that's making the errant
diff:
zdiff --unified --minimal $MANPAGELONGNAME $EDITABLEMANPAGE > $DIFFNAME
...where $MANPAGELONGNAME is the full path and file name of the man
page, and $EDITABLEMANPAGE and $DIFFNAME are just what they sound like
and live in '/tmp'. Perhaps there are better ways or tools; if not,
once I know the right format I could code something to parse the
'.diff' after the fact into something better for patching.
If possible, please advise!
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