Behold Coccinelle, a related tool, for doing semantic patches in C: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ The natural inverse to hierarchical

Behold Coccinelle, a related tool, for doing semantic patches in C: http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/ The natural inverse to hierarchical diff should be hierarchical patch, which would be (more-or-less) a generalization of what coccinelle does.