Thread: [Diffuse-users] diffues output to file

Dear authors,

thank you for diffuse tool.

I wonder how to save `diffuse file1 file2 file3` result to output file like
`diff` do it?

A.

Alexander,


> I wonder how to save `diffuse file1 file2 file3` result to output file like `diff` do it?

Unfortunately, Diffuse currently does not have an option to output a patch file.  I 
have only started looking at workflows for using patch files.  
Generating patch files should not be difficult.  I imagine a simple 
dialog allowing the user to pick the tabs to include in the patch and a way to pick the 
root path.  Is this how you envisioned exporting the comparison results?  Reading and manipulating patch files in a convenient way is a bigger challenge.

Cheers,
Derrick

Derrick,

This is sad :(

For my purposes I need `diffuse` to be called from terminal/console with
bunch of options. GUI is secondly. I thought you are calling some function
under the hood that produces diff for N files in some inner format. Then
that `diff for N files` is passed to GUI. So, the task now is to program
pretty printer to produce text to std-out. If it is tightly coupled then
there is a problem...

A.

On 15 July 2013 18:10, Derrick Moser <der...@ya...> wrote:

> Alexander,
>
> > I wonder how to save `diffuse file1 file2 file3` result to output file
> like `diff` do it?
>
> Unfortunately, Diffuse currently does not have an option to output a patch
> file.  I have only started looking at workflows for using patch files.
> Generating patch files should not be difficult.  I imagine a simple dialog
> allowing the user to pick the tabs to include in the patch and a way to
> pick the root path.  Is this how you envisioned exporting the comparison
> results?  Reading and manipulating patch files in a convenient way is a
> bigger challenge.
>
> Cheers,
> Derrick
>

Alexander,
You should be able to create a quick and dirty text based N file comparison from Diffuse's source without much difficulty.  I can help point you in the right direction if this is what you want to accomplish.  The inner format used by Diffuse is basically an array of strings for each file representing its lines of text with spacers inserted for alignment.  A separate array of blocks is used to describe manual alignments.


Cheers,
Derrick



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 From: Alexander Myltsev <ale...@ph...>
To: "dif...@li..." <dif...@li...> 
Sent: Monday, 15 July 2013, 10:19
Subject: Re: [Diffuse-users] diffues output to file
 


Derrick,

This is sad :(

For my purposes I need `diffuse` to be called from terminal/console with bunch of options. GUI is secondly. I thought you are calling some function under the hood that produces diff for N files in some inner format. Then that `diff for N files` is passed to GUI. So, the task now is to program pretty printer to produce text to std-out. If it is tightly coupled then there is a problem...

A.