Re: diff command line?

Gene Heskett
2005-03-05T17:18:06Z

On Saturday 05 March 2005 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.

And this is a list of files to ignore. In the previous case, only one
file, but I can see thats a very good way to weed out the noise.
Thanks.

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