Applying Diff patches?

pbarney

Does anyone know if NPP has the ability to apply diff patches to code? I didn’t see anything in the Plugins Admin, nor in the docs.

I’d be interested to know if anyone has attempted a homebrew solution using NppExec or Pythonscript as well.

PeterJones

@pbarney ,

If you have git, the git apply can apply patches even when the target isn’t under git control (according to my web search results, anyway; I’ve never tried it myself). So putting the patch file in the right directory, and using the NppExec to just run something like the following should work

cd "$(CURRENT_DIRECTORY)"
git apply "$(FILE_NAME)"

Alternately, I would say the most natural plugin for that feature to exist in would be the ComparePlus plugin. Unfortunately, the request for generating patchfiles has been un-implemented since 2019, so a new FR to also be able to apply a patch would likely not be implemented anytime soon.

update: who knows if it will do any good, but I commented on that Issue to request that apply patch be considered alongside create patch.

Mark Olson

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Ekopalypse

@pbarney

Using PS3 and an installed pygit2 library
you can do something like

import pygit2
repo = pygit2.Repository(Path(notepad.getCurrentFilename()).parent)
diff = pygit2.Diff.parse_diff(editor.getText())
repo.apply(diff)

This assumes that

the patch file has been created from a git tool
the current file open is the patch file in question
the patch file is in the repo directory