At 15:50 31-1-2002 -0500, Jeff Layton wrote:
Hello,
I'm sorry about the newbie question, but I don't have
any experience with using CVS and creating patches.
What I want to do is download the latest XFS for 2.4
from CVS. I managed to do that just fine, resulting in
a massive directory called linux-2.4-xfs. If I want to
create a patch file from this directory versus, say,
linux-2.4.17, what diff options do I use? (I experimented
with some, searched on google fairly quickly, and
punted to this mailing-list when I didn't have any luck).
After I get the patch I know what to do (some friends
with even less experience than me want the latest
patch from the CVS and sort of appointed me to do it :).
diff -urN is good one but you will need to get rid off the CVS dirs as well.
See the -X option off the diff manpage.
Cheers
--
Seth
Every program has two purposes one for which
it was written and another for which it wasn't
I use the last kind.
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