(Auto-)update patch - Githubissues

dfetch-org / dfetch

Dependency fetcher

https://dfetch.rtfd.io/

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(Auto-)update patch #614

Open ben-edna opened 4 months ago

ben-edna commented 4 months ago

When using dfetch update it would be nice to have the possibility to auto-update the patch. Because sometimes the patch fails because line nrs don't match.

Otherwise a cleaner procedure with user interaction to pull in the remote version and restore the changes applied previously. Something along the lines of:

if there are local changes
User runs dfetch update --some-flag MyModule
dfetch stores current state of module
dfetch force updates the module (in some tmp repo?)
dfetch restores the old state of the tmp folder
dfetch generates new patch at patch location