Stefan Sperling <stsp@stsp.name> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 07, 2022 at 09:27:28PM +0100, Omar Polo wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > some time ago stsp suggested that got should be able to apply diffs by
> > itself.  Using the VCS to apply them allows in fact some nice
> > comodities: for instance added and removed files are automatically
> > tracked.
> > 
> > The rather long diff attached is just that.  It's a simple and (i think)
> > straightforward implementation of patch(1) only integrated inside got.
> > There's a new got-read-patch libexec helpers (which borrows some lines
> > of code from Larry' patch, but it's mostly rewritten from scratch) that
> > is used to parse the content of the diff, similarly to the others
> > got-read-* helpers and under the same restrictions, and lib/patch.c that
> > wraps it.
> 
> Thanks, this is great! A very good starting point.
> 
> I think you should go ahead and put these changes on the main branch.
> They do not break the build and tests are passing. We do not lose anything
> even if this feature gets shipped in an incomplete state, and you will be
> able to make progress faster as people run into problems trying to use this.
> 
> You could then also respond to reviews of your initial diff here by sending
> smaller diffs with fixes back to the list, which makes things easier for all
> of us.

OK, so i went ahead and committed it with the following trivial bit on
top.  thanks :)

diff 0e2e6a811e99fe2e73cae9d4c15cfcab0a966c80 /home/op/w/got
blob - 97248718d40eaf3a712653112d62e64d0beca870
file + got/got.c
--- got/got.c
+++ got/got.c
@@ -7113,7 +7113,7 @@ done:
 __dead static void
 usage_patch(void)
 {
-	fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s patch patchfile\n",
+	fprintf(stderr, "usage: %s patch [patchfile]\n",
 	    getprogname());
 	exit(1);
 }
blob - 8d62a59817a8465d55c8c4770a983504c28e76fa
file + regress/cmdline/patch.sh
--- regress/cmdline/patch.sh
+++ regress/cmdline/patch.sh
@@ -386,6 +386,7 @@ EOF
 		if [ $ret != 0 ]; then
 			diff -u $testroot/wt/$f.expected $testroot/wt/$f
 			test_done $testroot $ret
+			return 1
 		fi
 	done