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As you read this suggestion, please remember that as a developer of Eclipse plugins, I normally do not have a need to checkout the Eclipse project itself. Sometimes, I would like to suggest a change to an Eclipse help document, or other source file. Once I have located the appropriate source in the CVS, it would be convenient if I could 1. open the file from the CVS view, 2. make the proposed changes in the editor window 3. right-click in the editor window and "Create Patch" The point here is that I have a suggestion to make, and it would be convenient to be able to generate a patch without having to checkout the entire project. Perhaps there is a better approach to this, so feel free to consider alternate solutions.
I don't like the idea of being able to create a patch from a file that has never been saved on disk (i.e. there is a high probability that the file will contain errors since the change could never be tested). I think a better appoach would be to allow you to compare a remote file to an arbitrary file on disk and create a patch from the difference. I have included this scenario in bug 128362. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 128362 ***
