Subj : vim patches
To   : All
From : tony summerfelt
Date : Sun Nov 11 2001 08:42 am

if you've ever applied a vim patch out of order (easy to make a mistake, it was 
93 patches last time i looked. this quickie perl program will help.

just put it and all your patches (as you get them) to the top level source tree 
for vim6 (on my system that's:  /usr/local/src/vim60) and run it like:

vimpatch.pl 25

no need for a leading '0'

#!/usr/bin/perl

die "no patch number given on command line" if @ARGV==0;

mkdir "./patches", 0755 if ! -d "./patches";

$basepatch="6.0.";
$vimext=$vimpatch="@ARGV[0]";

$vimpatch="0".$vimpatch while(length($vimpatch)<3);
$patchlevel=$basepatch.$vimpatch;

while (-e "./$patchlevel")
{
      print "applying patch: $patchlevel\n";
      system "patch -p0 <$patchlevel" if ! -e "./patches/$patchlevel";
      rename "./$patchlevel", "./patches/$patchlevel";
      $vimpatch=++$vimext;
      $vimpatch="0".$vimpatch while(length($vimpatch)<3);
      $patchlevel=$basepatch.$vimpatch;
}

..t

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