Hi Samuel,

it seems to me that people who want to create patches regularly would live much better if they'd use a versioning system to create these patches. What you describe is more a facility for the casual patch producer, which are the people who usually don't write patches.

- Carsten

On Oct 26, 2008, at 5:25 AM, Samuel Wales wrote:

To make it easier to patch correctly, perhaps it would help if you
could visit an org file, and simply call an org-patch command that
would do something like this:

- create a directory as a sibling to the org source dir if it does not exist
 - put the original and a copy in it
 - remind the user to put it in load-path in front of org
 - let you edit the copy
 - give you hints on org coding style
 - remind you to use short functions that do only one thing
 - tell you how to instrument for testing
 - remind you of gnu requirements
 - tell you to run org-patch-diff to create a temporary buffer with
the correct diff output

At least, if I wanted to, say, correct a typo in an org function, I
wouldn't bother unless I could do it this easily, for fear of getting
it wrong.


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