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Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:57:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Infamous Woodchuck <garzik@pobox.com>
To: Ivan Passos <lists@cyclades.com>
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Subject: Re: Patch generation
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On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ivan Passos wrote:
> 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.).

You are running the correct command for diff, you are just not running
'make mrproper' to clean your source tree before diffing.  :)

	Jeff




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