Suggested Enhancement: Option: Generate Patch

[DavidHaslam]

WinMerge has a Tools option to Generate Patch.

The output file is in standard diff format that can be used as a [software] patch.

It would be a useful enhancement for the Compare plugin to be able to do likewise.

[pnedev]

Great idea, I'll consider implementing it sometime in the future but I can't promise anything as I'm not sure I'll have the time.

[DavidHaslam]

The requested feature should not depend upon either Git or SVN data being present.
cf. Neither are needed by the WinMerge tool.

[b-morgan]

I'll add my vote for this feature.

[byzod]

Here's another vote :D

[BdR76]

And here's another vote 👍

I kind of assumed this functionality was already available, because of the SVN Diff and GIT Diff menu items. But I've tried them now and I don't know what they are supposed to do, it just gives a dialog "No Git data found". 🤔 The Help.md also doesn't mention it.

[pnedev]

@BdR76 ,

Git/SVN compares are used to compare a changed file that is part of a Git/SVN repository against its copy in the version control repo.

The counter for patch generation functionality request is incremented :)