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Have you ever edited any of the plugins you have installed? If so, then rvm_plugin_diff is meant for you.

This plugin helps you do the following:

• Find the changes you made (color diff, inspired by dev.textpattern.com).
• Download the changes in unified diff format (a patch which can be sent to the plugin developer).
• View the plugin code with line numbers at the beginning of each line, so you can find errors easier.

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The goal of this plugin is to make it easier to feed back bugfixes to the original authors of plugins. It’s often easy to fix a bug, but I found it hard to find what exactly I had changed afterwards (having edited around half the plugins in use at textpattern.org), so I had some fun writing this plugin and learned a lot about how (unified) diff and patch works.

Note: the patches this plugin creates, use UNIX-style line endings. If the original code was developed on a different platform, you may have to convert the line endings before applying the patch.

• version 0.1 (2006-11-26)
• version 0.2 (2006-11-29)
  • fix infinite loop in rare situations (which turn out to be not so rare)
  • separate modified and original plugins in the select list

Last edited by ruud (2006-11-29 00:23:37)