From: Jim Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk>
To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: diff command line?
Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:45:13 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4229E219.20100@cwazy.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050305161822.H3282@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
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Russell King wrote:
| On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:48:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
|
|>What are the options normally used to generate a diff for public
|>consumption on this list?
|
|
| diff -urpN orig new
|
| where "orig" and "new" both contain the top level "linux" directory,
| so the resulting patch can be applied with patch -p1.
|
You'd also want to add "-x dontdiff", using
http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/dontdiff-osdl
That way, you can do a diff, even if you have run a compile in one of the
directory trees.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-05 16:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-05 15:48 diff command line? Gene Heskett
2005-03-05 16:18 ` Russell King
2005-03-05 16:44 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-05 16:45 ` Jim Nelson [this message]
2005-03-05 17:06 ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-09 4:23 ` [PATCH][Documentation update]Re: " John Kacur
2005-03-07 10:51 ` Michelle Konzack
2005-03-07 14:13 ` Catalin Marinas
2005-03-07 15:08 ` Michelle Konzack
2005-03-05 17:00 ` Kyle McMartin
2005-03-05 17:26 ` Alexey Dobriyan
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