MatPatchGardener is a tool for creating and maintaining patches to Matlab. This is useful if you want to send suggested fixes when you submit Matlab bug reports to MathWorks.
It might also be useful if you want to do your own modifications to Matlab by "shadowing" its own definitions. But do that at your own risk; it is an unsupported configuration.
WARNING! Matlab is proprietary, commerical software. Its contents are the intellectual property of MathWorks. The patches you create are derived works of Matlab, and will also contain MathWorks' intellectual property. Do not give access to your patches to anyone unless you have verified that they have a currently active Matlab license!
On Windows, you need to install GNU diffutils or something else that gives you a Unix-y diff command.
MatPatchGardener requires the latest release of Matlab. (There's not much point in producing patches for older releases.) As of this writing, that's Matlab R2019b.
% Initialize the library
matpatch.wakeup
% Choose your garden
matpatch.Shed.activateGarden('/path/to/my/garden/dir');
% Let's work on datetime stuff
matpatch.dig('some-graphics-work')
mp_plant scatter scatter3
edit scatter3
% And then when you've made some changes to your local datetime copy:
matpatch.harvest
% Okay, let's work on something else
matpatch.dig('my-stats-stuff')
mp_plant mean
% What have we got going on now?
matpatch.lookaround
matpatch.listpatchesYou must call matpatch.wakeup to initialize the library every time you start a new Matlab session and want to use MatPatchGardener.
The easiest way to do this is to cd to the Mcode/ directory under the MatPatchGardener installation and run it from there.
If this is your first time gardening, matpatch.wakeup will walk you through an interactive setup of your user info.
MatPatchGardner is written by Andrew Janke.
The project home page is https://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab.html. Bug reports and feature requests can be filed there.
Also contains code from other authors:
Matt Tearle (2020). Recursively search for files (https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/57298-recursively-search-for-files), MATLAB Central File Exchange. Retrieved January 23, 2020.