Re: How to use patches sent to vim_dev?

On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 8:20 AM Tony Mechelynck
<antoine.mechelynck@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2022 at 7:38 AM Enan Ajmain <3nan.ajmain@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Bram sends patches in vim_dev ML. But it's not structured to directly
> > use with `git am`, is it? If that's correct, what's the reason for
> > using a different patch format?
> >
> > P.S. I am not gonna use the patch email. But my email client, Claws,
> > highlights the patch. In vim patch's case, it can't. That's why I
> > noticed the difference.
> >
> > --
> > Enan
>
> Bram's patches are in context diff (not unified context diff) format,
> one of the formats acceptable to the "patch" program, and once upon a
> time that was the program to be used when updating one's Vim source.
>
> Nowadays, most people who compile their own Vim use either a git clone
> of Bram's github master, or (like I do) a Mercurial clone of
> Christian's Mercurial public clone of Bram's git master (that
> Mercurial repository is located at http://hg.256bit.org/vim) and then
> the email patches are just a reminder that a new patchlevel has been
> published. Their contents are then not used directly.

P.S. The reason for using a different patch format is that
historically, context diffs were introduced some time before unified
diffs, which means that it is (remotely) possible that some systems
have an old-fashioned "patch" program accepting context diffs but not
unified diffs. Both context diffs and unified diffs are human-readable
and can be used to "undo" a patch if the correct arguments are given
on the "patch" program's command-line.
>
> Best regards,
> Tony.

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