patchutils mit Homebrew, apk, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• combinediff
• dehtmldiff
• editdiff
• espdiff
• filterdiff
• fixcvsdiff
• flipdiff
• gitdiff
• gitdiffview
• gitshow
• gitshowview
• grepdiff
• interdiff
• lsdiff
• move-to-front
• patchview
• patchview-wrapper
• recountdiff
• rediff
• splitdiff
• svndiff
• svndiffview
• unwrapdiff

Projektgeschichte

Tim Waugh developed patchutils as a collection of small programs operating on patch files. The suite accumulated tools for combining, filtering, splitting, comparing, recounting, and correcting diffs. After a period of low release activity, the maintainer released version 0.4.3 in 2025—the first release since 2020—with accumulated fixes, new in-place editing options, improved cross-platform support through gnulib, and enhanced diff handling.

Adoptionsgeschichte

patchutils is distributed by numerous Unix-like package systems, including Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora-family distributions, Alpine, Arch Linux, Nix, openSUSE, Homebrew, and MacPorts. This broad packaging reflects the suite's durable role in source-based development and distribution-maintenance workflows.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users choose focused utilities such as filterdiff to select portions of a patch, interdiff to compare patch revisions, combinediff to merge incremental patches, lsdiff or grepdiff to inspect patch contents, splitdiff to separate patches, and rediff or recountdiff to repair diff metadata. The tools are designed to compose naturally with files, pipes, and source-control output.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

patchutils turns patch files into manipulable data rather than treating them only as input to patch. Its focused commands support the everyday work of downstream maintainers: selecting hunks, comparing patch revisions, repairing metadata, inspecting affected files, and reorganizing patch series.

Zeitleiste

• 2020: Last release before the project's multi-year release pause.
• 2025: Version 0.4.3 ended the release pause and incorporated accumulated fixes and improvements.

Related projects

• patchutils complements GNU diffutils and GNU patch and is commonly useful alongside Git and other source-control systems that emit unified diffs.

Quellen

• Maintainer release history note: https://cyberelk.net/tim/2025/09/02/patchutils-rises-from-slumber/
• Official project page: https://cyberelk.net/tim/software/patchutils
• Official releases: https://github.com/twaugh/patchutils/releases
• Official repository: https://github.com/twaugh/patchutils