[PATCH][Documentation update]Re: diff command line?

John Kacur
2005-03-09T04:23:23Z

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:
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> |>What are the options normally used to generate a diff for public
> |>consumption on this list?
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> | diff -urpN orig new
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> | where "orig" and "new" both contain the top level "linux" directory,
> | so the resulting patch can be applied with patch -p1.
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> You'd also want to add "-x dontdiff", using
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> http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/scripts/dontdiff-osdl
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> 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
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