and i discovered the name just after pressing send. the thing i recall is probably diffsync.el. it is very different from my design.
On 9/3/22, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > i seem to recall a package flew by that merges files using diff mode. > i can't seem to find it anywhere. anybody recall? > > i was interested because i once designed a filesystem tree differ and > thought perhaps the new package could too. > > i vaguely recall that both the new package and my design use the diff > gutter for marks. both view fs trees as text. > > > p.s. fwiw, here are my notes on /my/ design. i don't know the new > package. > > for unrelated reasons i cannot implement this. just a design. > anybody is very welcome to of course. > > === > > pathnames are after the first tab. metadata can be > displayed before the first tab. > > for example: > > "---rw-r--r--,34668 ./boot/grub/gcry_camellia.mod" > "+--rw-r--r--,5 ./boot/grub/gcry_camellia.mod" > > you can perform operations. > > operations only apply to the b tree. that is, unlike most > mergers, we are not trying to modify a, but instead make b > perfect. > > === > > operations on dirs will apply to everything under them also. > operations on - or + will apply to the opposite also. > > - k :: dim with `' > - ' :: delete dimmed and context > - \ :: ediff -+ using my algo > > - d :: mark delete in b > - e :: mark ediff a b files > - c :: mark copy a to b > > - u :: unmark > - U :: unmark > > - x :: execute > - s :: put a shell script in a new buffer > > advanced: > > - t :: dim stuff underneath (act as a truncating differ > like diff -ur) > - ? :: dim not in both > - ? :: dim all in both > - ? :: reduce dirname (see command) > ********* REF use case: merging a SUBSET into an older full fileset > > this is an example of a problem we are trying to solve using > these merging capabilities. > > === > > suppose you back up your computer nightly. but the backup > drive is too small, so you only backup a SUBSET of your files. > > then your computer crashes. you start running from SUBSET. > you do not have access to your ORIGINAL (a.k.a. the FULL > FILESET) because ORIGINAL is on internal drives that cannot > be physically extracted. > > you make a lot of changes to what started out as SUBSET. > > you finally get access to ORIGINAL. now merge SUBSET into > ORIGINAL so that you get full set of files with your > changes. this is the problem we try to solve. > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com
