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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 16:22:39 -0500
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Eric Sandeen wrote:

> On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 14:51, Seth Mos wrote:
>
> > diff -urN is good one but you will need to get rid off the CVS dirs as well.
>
> Oh right...
>
> add "--exclude=CVS" or "-x CVS"

OK, here's what I did:

(1) got CVS directory following instructions on web page
(2) made a patch with diff using the following:

diff -urN --exclude=CVS /usr/src/linux-2.4.17/ /usr/src/linux-2.4-xfs/linux/ > /tmp/patch

BINGO - fresh patch! Very nice.

Thanks for the help everyone!

Jeff



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