Subject: Re: Newbie Patch/CVS question
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sgi.com>
To: Jeff Layton <laytonjb@bellsouth.net>
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Date: 31 Jan 2002 14:53:19 -0600
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On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 14:50, Jeff Layton wrote:

>    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?

diff -Nur /path/to/vanilla/linux /path/to/cvs/linux-2.4.x-xfs/linux

(obviously replacing paths correctly, above...)

OTOH, there are ready-made patches on 
ftp://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/download/patches/2.4.17...

-Eric

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