randy_dunlap wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Someone asked me about a tool like this and I didn't know of one,
> so I made this little script.
> 
> 'patchview' merges a patch file and a source tree to a set of
> temporary modified files.  This enables better patch (re)viewing
> and more viewable context.  (hopefully)
> 
> Are there already other tools that do something similar to this?
> (other than SCMs)
> 
> 
> The patchview script is here:
>   http://www.xenotime.net/linux/scripts/patchview
> 
> usage: patchview [-f] patchfile srctree
>   -f : force tkdiff even if 'patch' has errors
> 
> 
> It uses (requires) lsdiff (from patchutils) and tkdiff.
> 
> patchutils:  http://cyberelk.net/tim/patchutils/
> tkdiff:      http://sourceforge.net/projects/tkdiff/
> 
> ---
> ~Randy

Randy,

As Nick already pointed out, mktemp fails if the parent dir doesn't 
exist. The attached patch tries to create the parent if it doesn't 
exist. It also accepts a [-s] argument to bring up a single viewer at a 
time. Otherwise, if there are many different files being touched by the 
patch it dies a horrible death on my machine. Nice utility, btw.

-- 
    kr