Using a configured Diff Tool to apply a patch?

[dfhtextpipe]

It might be a useful enhancement to provide a TextPipe filter that can use the configured Diff Tool to apply a patch to the input file being processed.

Might that be feasible?

Best regards,

David

[DataMystic Support]

Hi David - interesting - how do you think this would work?

Add the file to be patched to the file list, and supply the patching text to a new filter?

Which diff tools do you have in mind to support this?

[dfhtextpipe]

Hi Simon,

I guess that patch tools that can use diff files are more of a Linux scenario.

I've not yet found such a tool for Windows, except maybe to use under Cygwin, which I've not yet tried with diff.

David

[DataMystic Support]

I can't really see how this work in the TextPipe processing model.

Thanks for the thought though!

Regards,

Simon