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To: Ivan Passos <lists@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch generation
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From: Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>
Date: 09 Nov 2000 14:56:16 -0800
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Ivan Passos <lists@cyclades.com> writes:

> Where in the src tree can I find (or what is) the command to generate a
> patch file from two Linux kernel src trees, one being the original and the
> other being the newly changed one??
> I've tried 'diff -ruN', but that does diff's on several files that could
> stay out of the comparison (such as the files in include/config, .files,
> etc.).

use the dontdiff file from tigran with -X option of diff at :

http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches/dontdiff

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