Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 11:45:13 -0500
From: Jim Nelson <james4765@cwazy.co.uk>
Subject: Re: diff command line?
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To: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
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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?
|
|
| 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.

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