I have a subversion repository, and it has 8 revisions in it with many, many changes between 7 and 8. How can I create patch files, per file, for the changes between 7 and 8?
I.E., not one massive patch file, but if x.php changed and y.php changed, I'd want a patch file for x.php and y.php
Is this possible? How can I do it?
you will need some kind of scripting to either get the list of filenames and request a patch for each one, or request a "massive" patch and split it at the --- lines...
I know it is possible with tools like InstallShield. InstallShield finds out what your differences are between the two versions, and writes out a patch installer containing only the differences. So it seems as if this is a property of your installer creation tool.
This is a simple winforms application that will split it, done in C#. It needs three buttons: btnIn, btnFolder, btnSplit and two labels, lblIn, lblFolder.
using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.ComponentModel; using System.Data; using System.Drawing; using System.IO; using System.Linq; using System.Text; using System.Windows.Forms; namespace PatchSplitter { public partial class Form1 : Form { public Form1() { InitializeComponent(); } private void btnIn_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { OpenFileDialog ofd = new OpenFileDialog(); if(ofd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { lblIn.Text = ofd.FileName; if(lblIn.Text != "" && lblFolder.Text != "") { btnSplit.Enabled = true; } else { btnSplit.Enabled = false; } } } private void btnFolder_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { FolderBrowserDialog fbd = new FolderBrowserDialog(); if(fbd.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK) { lblFolder.Text = fbd.SelectedPath; if (lblIn.Text != "" && lblFolder.Text != "") { btnSplit.Enabled = true; } else { btnSplit.Enabled = false; } } } private void btnSplit_Click(object sender, EventArgs e) { string file = ""; string line; StreamWriter current = null; StreamReader input = new StreamReader(lblIn.Text); while ((line = input.ReadLine()) != null) { if (line.StartsWith("Index: ")) { if (current != null) { current.Close(); } file = line.Remove(0, 7); string directory; if (file.LastIndexOf('/') == -1) { directory = ""; } else { directory = file.Substring(0, file.LastIndexOf('/')); } if (!Directory.Exists(lblFolder.Text + "\\" + directory)) { Directory.CreateDirectory(lblFolder.Text + "\\" + directory); } current = new StreamWriter(new FileStream(lblFolder.Text + "\\" + file + ".patch", FileMode.Create)); current.WriteLine(line); } else { if (current != null) { current.WriteLine(line); } } } current.Close(); MessageBox.Show("Done"); } } }