by DaveT1 » 07 Jan 2021, 07:04
Very many thanks BoBo and Hoppfrosch, really appreciate your thoughts. My googling had taken me to similar places, but, and demonstrating my total ignorance:
Why not use the same tools on Windows as on Unix?
I can do this? Do I simply take the .exe and invoke it via cmd console (eventually via AUTOHOTKEY
Run or
RunWait)?
Are you asking for something like reverse patching?
Err, I think so
! I would like to be able to track the evolution of a text file by noting the changes, or deltas, and then re-build any instance of that file by merging the appropriate set of 'deltas'.
(Basically I'm trying to see if I can build a really really simple revision / version control system based on file deltas. I've nearly finished writing one for whole files, which is fine for small projects, but am looking at the possibility of using deltas to be more 'grown-up'
.)
Sorry BoBo, I couldn't get that link to resolve!?
Thanks again for your ideas
.
Very many thanks BoBo and Hoppfrosch, really appreciate your thoughts. My googling had taken me to similar places, but, and demonstrating my total ignorance:
[quote]Why not use the same tools on Windows as on Unix? [/quote]
I can do this? Do I simply take the .exe and invoke it via cmd console (eventually via AUTOHOTKEY [c]Run[/c] or [c]RunWait[/c])?
[quote]Are you asking for something like reverse patching?[/quote]
Err, I think so :think: ! I would like to be able to track the evolution of a text file by noting the changes, or deltas, and then re-build any instance of that file by merging the appropriate set of 'deltas'.
(Basically I'm trying to see if I can build a really really simple revision / version control system based on file deltas. I've nearly finished writing one for whole files, which is fine for small projects, but am looking at the possibility of using deltas to be more 'grown-up' ;) .)
[quote]interdiff : https://cygwin.com/cgi-bin2/package-cat.cgi?file=x86_64%2Fpatchutils%2Fpatchutils-0.3.3-1[/quote]
Sorry BoBo, I couldn't get that link to resolve!?
Thanks again for your ideas :thumbup: .