On Windows, there is TortoiseMerge tool that's able to open patch files (the files produced by git patch / diff -u, etc...), and then act as a visual diff utility to select/edit the patch chunks.

Open the 'macOS Sierra Patcher' tool, and browse for your copy of the macOS Sierra Installer App. In the application, select the Mac model you are using. The optimal patches will be selected for you based on the model you select. You can also select other patches of your choosing. Network Scanner 4.3.2 Build 213. Scans IP addresses and check out a list of all the computers in your network with the help of this.

IPS Peek is an IPS patch analysis tool. Usually, IPS patch files can only be analyzed with hex editors; this can be difficult if the user has no knowledge of the IPS file format. IPS Peek allows IPS patch file data to be easily viewed in a visual way.

On linux, I've heard kompare does this.

On Mac, I haven't find any tool for this, so do you know any ?

PS: I'm not looking for diff tool which require giving you 2 or 3 files as input (since the patch I'm editing might not be valid, I can't apply the patch on a temporary subset of the file and diff manually).

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The tool I work for (ECMerge), as a 'preview patch' feature. It lets you apply a (reverse-)patch on the file and produce the other side just visually, or simply 'tell' if it applied succesfully as a whole. While producing the other side, it can paste to the clipboard what was rejected. It has the usual options for context limitations and displaced application. Patch files have syntax colouring.

Once you could apply the patch as you wanted, you have a 2-way merge view so you can make a selection of what you finally want to apply, save or produce patches.

This is not perfect but workable.

PatchViewer on Mac OS X (http://appledeveloper.com.au/products/patchviewer/) does part of what you are after (display patch files visually using whatever GUI diff tool you like), but it doesn't allow editing the patch file.

(Disclaimer: I am the author of PatchViewer.)

You can use colordiff and pipe in the patch file. Not a GUI, but definitely way better than just trying to read the patch file.

brew install colordiffcat file.patch | colordiff | less -RS

Worked well for my needs. More info here: http://www.markusbe.com/2009/12/how-to-read-a-patch-or-diff-and-understand-its-structure-to-apply-it-manually/

The GitHub app for Mac does this, and it doesn't necessarily have to be used with GitHub.

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