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Re: version control - complicated diff usage

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From: Giovanni Faggioli
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 1999 00:00
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Sascha Spangenberg <ssp@ee.ed.ac.uk> writes:

> Hi there,
> 
> is s.o. out there who knows how to do the following....
> 
> I have a file called foo version 1.0
> I edit foo v1.0 and save it as v1.1
> I further edit v1.1  and save it as v1.2
> 
> Now I copy foo v1.0 to - say foo2 v1.0- edit this file and save it at
> v1.1
> 
> At this stage I want to apply the same changes to foo2 v1.1 as I did in
> foo from v1.1->v1.2
> Assume that the parts where changes need to be made shall be
>     * identical in foo v1.1 and foo2 v1.1  BUT
>     * at different positions withing the files...
> 
> Is there a way of doing this with diff or so???
> 
> Any ideas???
> 

With 'sdiff' you can merge interactively two files.
If version 1.0 is still available, 'merge' from the rcs-suite
is another option.

Good Luck,

Giovanni
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From: user@box7.mynet.de (Giovanni Faggioli)
Subject: Re: version control - complicated diff usage
Date: 1999/03/10
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