Re: diff command line?
From: Gene Heskett
Date: Sat Mar 05 2005 - 12:04:04 EST
On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:18, 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.
Which means the patch I just submitted is wrong, I made it while cd'd
to the 2.6.11 tree. Damn. I'll remake & resubmit.
Thanks
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