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SubjectRe: ANNOUNCE: wiggle - a tools for applying patches with conflicts
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 01:22:06PM +1000, Neil Brown wrote:
>
> I am pleased to announce the first public release of 'wiggle'.
>
> Wiggle is a program for applying patches that 'patch' cannot
> apply due to conflicting changes in the original.
>
> Wiggle will always apply all changes in the patch to the original.
> If it cannot find a way to cleanly apply a patch, it inserts it
> in the original in a manner similar to 'merge', and report an
> unresolvable conflict. Such a conflict will look like:

Very clever. An option to generate traditional .rej files rather than
inline conflicts would be nice; I hate the latter.

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