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Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 21:51:25 +0100
To: Jeff Layton <laytonjb@bellsouth.net>, linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com
From: Seth Mos <knuffie@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Newbie Patch/CVS question
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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.