Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4

[Charles Lepple <clepple@ghz.cc>]

Mike Fedyk wrote:
[...]
>>mrproper:
>>        @find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \
>>                \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \
>>                -o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '.*.orig' \
>>                -o -name '.*.rej' -o -size 0 \
>>                -o -name '*%' -o -name '.*.cmd' -o -name 'core' \) \
>>                -type f -print | xargs rm -f
>>        $(call cmd,mrproper)
>>
> 
> 
> But dontdiff is a list of files that must be skipped, not a regex, right?
> Then dontdiff will be useless until a build has been done on that kernel tree.

Not really. From the diff manpage:

        -X FILE  --exclude-from=FILE
               Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.

You may want to take a look at a copy of dontdiff (noting the shell 
patterns). It looks like dontdiff could be generated from mrproper's 
list of scratch files (with the exception of the '-size 0' test in the 
'find' command) but I could be wrong.

FWIW, the $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) part skips some version-control directories 
that dontdiff doesn't mention. I guess the party line is that you should 
use the version control system for doing diffs in that case, but whatever.

If you try to replace dontdiff with a dynamically generated list, be 
sure and have a few folks test it out on different trees (including ones 
managed by BK and SVN) to make sure you haven't broken anything.

-C