https://github.com/zaedus/dwm-patch-fetch

⚡ Grabs a list of patches and their respective diffs for dwm from suckless's website
https://github.com/zaedus/dwm-patch-fetch

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⚡ Grabs a list of patches and their respective diffs for dwm from suckless's website

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zaedus/dwm-patch-fetch
• Owner: Zaedus
• Created: 2022-03-23T06:56:12.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2022-03-23T07:05:20.000Z (almost 3 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T18:52:11.957Z (3 months ago)
• Topics: dwm, suckless
• Language: Shell
• Homepage:
• Size: 2.93 KB
• Stars: 3
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# dwm Patch Fetch

This is just a simple script which fetches all of the patches from [https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/](https://dwm.suckless.org/patches/) and parses each page for a description and a patch name.

It is recommended that you save the output of this script to a file and parse it from there since every diff and description must be individually requested and parsed, making the script slow and unncessarily spam the suckless servers. There is a built in threaded mode and delay option which should be used with discretion. My intention is not to DDoS suckless, so do set the delay option to something other than 0 please!

## Features

- Listing the urls of all of the diffs

- Listing all of the patches

## Dependencies

- bash (obviously)

- html-xml-utils

- curl

- grep

## Why make this?

Good question. The main reason I made this was becuase I was curious which version of dwm was more widely supported, and which patches did in fact support it. Using my script and the handy math function from my favorite shell `fish` I found that *70.2% of patches have explicit support for 6.2*.

```fish

math (./dwm-patch-fetch.sh | grep "6.2" | wc -l)/(./dwm-patch-fetch.sh -l | wc -l)

```

The reason I say 'explicit' is because some patches aren't named `mycoolpatch-6.2.diff` so its hard to really know an exact number through scripting, but we can safely say that over 70% of patches work with 6.2. 

If you're curious about what percentage of patches explicitly support 6.3, you should download the script and find out! I can't do all the work.