Create a new "Patch file" Tool

[netroy]

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• I believe this is a bug. I'll try to join the Continue Discord for questions
• I'm not able to find an open issue that reports the same bug
• I've seen the troubleshooting guide on the Continue Docs

Relevant environment info

- OS: Linux
- Continue version: v0.8.66
- IDE version: 1.96.2
- Model: Claude Sonnet 3.5
- config.json:

Description

I'm not sure if this is a bug or a feature-request.

Currently the only way to patch a file is to recreate is via the Create new file tool.
This works well for smaller files, but when working on larger files, the LLM often starts generating subsections of the files, essentially deleting a lot of code.
Not to mention that having to regenerate such large files also requires a lot more tokens and is rather expensive.

If there was a tool to apply diff patches, we could use the LLM to generate just the patch, and then apply the patch. That should theoretically be much cheaper and quicker.

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[nikhil-swamix]

AIDER to be used!

[sestinj]

This is a good idea! Marking as good-first-issue

[netroy]

@sestinj I can try. do you have any technical preferences or suggestions for how you think this should be implemented?