Andrew Morton wrote: > > Most of these lists are unordered anyway, so inserting the new item at a > randomly-chosen position is a better approach than just appending it. > - But you have lost the order you have just stated. "Order by time of addition" ascending ;)
Sometimes what I do is a diff with only post sync lines. With -p and the end of the list it mostly works. consider this file <list1> BEGIN LIST I1 I2 I3 END LIST .. ... </list1> and consider this patch <list2.patch> --- list1 2007-07-11 10:33:26.000000000 +0300 +++ list2 2007-07-11 10:22:16.000000000 +0300 @@ -5,2 +5,3 @@ BEGIN LIST + add1 END LIST .. </list2.patch> Now this will work. In fact you can apply this patch multiple times and it will keep adding Items. "patch" will not warn about reverse patching, but ... It will add Items from the top. Actually it will add the Item at an absolute line in the file. At -# line stated at hunk header, like "-5" above. Free Life Boaz - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/