1PatchReader(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation PatchReader(3)
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6 PatchReader - Utilities to read and manipulate patches and CVS
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9 # Script that reads in a patch (in any known format), and prints
10 # out some information about it. Other common operations are
11 # outputting the patch in a raw unified diff format, outputting
12 # the patch information to Template::Toolkit templates, adding
13 # context to a patch from CVS, and narrowing the patch down to
14 # apply only to a single file or set of files.
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16 use PatchReader::Raw;
17 use PatchReader::PatchInfoGrabber;
18 my $filename = 'filename.patch';
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20 # Create the reader that parses the patch and the object that
21 # extracts info from the reader's datastream
22 my $reader = new PatchReader::Raw();
23 my $patch_info_grabber = new PatchReader::PatchInfoGrabber();
24 $reader->sends_data_to($patch_info_grabber);
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26 # Iterate over the file
27 $reader->iterate_file($filename);
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30 my $patch_info = $patch_info_grabber->patch_info();
31 print "Summary of Changed Files:\n";
32 while (my ($file, $info) = each %{$patch_info->{files}}) {
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37 This perl library allows you to manipulate patches programmatically by
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41 PatchReader::Raw
42 Parse a patch in any format known to this author (unified, normal,
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45 PatchReader::PatchInfoGrabber
46 Grab summary info for sections of a patch in a nice hash
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49 Add context to the patch by grabbing the original files from CVS
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51 PatchReader::NarrowPatch
52 Narrow a patch down to only apply to a specific set of files
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54 PatchReader::DiffPrinter::raw
55 Output the parsed patch in raw unified diff format
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58 Output the parsed patch to Template::Toolkit templates (can be used
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61 Additionally, it is designed so that you can plug in your own objects
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65 readers (such as PatchInfoGrabber) and overriding the methods
66 start_patch, start_file, section, end_file and end_patch.
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