split_huge_diff.sh

split_huge_diff.sh

split_file() {
    local file="$1"
    if [[ ! -f "$file" ]]; then
        echo "File '$file' does not exist."
        return 1
    fi

    # Use short options compatible with your version of split
    split -b 50k -a 2 "$file" "${file}.part"

    # Rename the split files to have numeric suffixes starting from 1
    i=1
    for f in "${file}.part"*
    do
        mv "$f" "${file}.part${i}"
        i=$((i+1))
    done
}

rm 2.0.patch*

# gets a patch excluding binary files, auto generated .cpp files and auto generated java files otherwise the patch is too big
git diff --diff-filter=d --binary 240fceb14a2496573b15d813ea40ca0cf9b71489 HEAD -- ':(exclude)src/main/java/com/frostwire/jlibtorrent/swig/' ':(exclude)swig/libtorrent_jni.cpp' ':(exclude)*.jar' ':(exclude)*.zip' ':(exclude)*.md' ':(exclude)*.txt' > 2.0.patch

# splits it in chunks of 50kb so we can paste it one at the time to chatGPT
split_file 2.0.patch

ls -lth 2.0.patch*

MBP14inchDec2021:frostwire-jlibtorrent gubatron$ ./split_huge_diff.sh 
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    26K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part9
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part8
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part7
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part6
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part5
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part4
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part3
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part2
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff    50K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch.part1
-rw-r--r--  1 gubatron  staff   426K Sep 26 09:26 2.0.patch