intellij Patch Tool – Fail
Posted by Ed on September 29th, 2009 filed in RantsI love intellij most of the time.
But the patch tool sucks. Any tool that leaves you in an unknown state with no messaging after a problem sucks.
I have 8 files in a patch. I work through 4 files using the diff tool. Then inexplicably Intellij decides not to use the diff tool on the next file and it just throws an error about a single line change, and leaves me in an inconsistent state. Awesome. Exactly what I do not want it to ever, ever, ever do! Did the 4 files get totally patched? Did the other 3 patch without a problem? Did the 9 changes in the bad file get applied before the problem line?
How freakin’ hard could it be to just keep sending me to the diff tool when there’s not a clear automated fix for a line?
And give me summary of what just happened to my code.
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