Re: diff files

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

mick.crane wrote: 
> On 2025-10-02 12:24, john doe wrote:
> > On 10/2/25 1:13 PM, mick.crane wrote:
> > > Please bear in mind I don't know what I'm doing.
> > > I only ever used diff once before.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > > I was trying to get ChatGPT to post a patch file rather than the
> > > whole thing but it's been unsuccessful.
> > 
> > What thing are you talking about (repo where the commits are coming
> > from)?
> I asked ChatGPT to generate some code. It prints out in one of those html
> <code>block things
> I ask for changes and it takes some time if lots of code. So I ask,
> "don't post the whole thing, can you post a diff file?"
> There were several attempts by ChatGPT to post a diff file in html <code>
> block thing that I copy pasted into a file on my computer and tried to patch
> into my copy of the script but they were unsuccessful.
> So I wondered, is it line feed, encoding, the patch protocols, some issue
> with the html.

No, the problem is that, as you said,  you don't know what you are doing.

You cannot fix problems with LLMs unless you are able to completely test their output.

-dsr-