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From: John Kacur <jkacur@rogers.com>
To: Jim Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, rddunlap@osdl.org
Subject: [PATCH][Documentation update]Re: diff command line?
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2005 23:23:19 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110342199.5533.24.camel@linux.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4229E219.20100@cwazy.co.uk>

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 11:45, Jim Nelson wrote:
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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.

Hey, why isn't that is the documentation? I didn't hear of it until now.
Is this what most developers are using for 2.6, if so then we need the
following trivial documentation update. Created against the Docs in
2.6.11

--- SubmittingPatches.orig      2005-03-08 23:09:19.496223848 -0500
+++ SubmittingPatches   2005-03-08 23:18:52.192160832 -0500
@@ -60,6 +60,9 @@
 the build process, and should be ignored in any diff(1)-generated
 patch.  dontdiff is maintained by Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>

+For 2.6 kernels you can fetch dontdiff-osdl maintained by Randy Dunlap.
+wget http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/dontdiff-osdl
+






  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-09  4:23 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
2005-03-05 17:06     ` Gene Heskett
2005-03-09  4:23     ` John Kacur [this message]
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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