[TYPO3-dev] Proper DIFFs vs. Less work for Devs

[Ernesto Baschny [cron IT]]

Mathias Schreiber [wmdb >] wrote: on 18.05.2009 12:21:

>> I know it's pear and all but I thought I'd send the link anyway and you
>> can have a look if you can use something from it:
>>
>> http://pear.php.net/package/Text_Diff/docs/latest/Text_Diff/Text_Diff.html

> There are quite a lot of diff tools out, but i need the other way around.
> Taking our experiences from T3DD into acount I need to stick as close as
> possible to pure PHP/TYPO3 API as I can.
> 
> So I will basically port the patch command from C to PHP (hoorray) so I
> get the same behaviour.
> 
> But of course I am open for other approaches, thanks for the link ;-)

I am not sure what you are intending. You should always do a "svn
update" before you create a patch. Than it doesn't matter what tool you
use. Why would a PHP-based tool work better than "svn diff"?

Cheers,
Ernesto