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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 22:31:28 +0000 (GMT)
From: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@veritas.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Alan Cox wrote:

> > 	The Unofficial Linus HOWTO
> 
> 	'Care And Operation Of Your Linus Torvalds'
> 
> 
> > 	mv linux linux-vanilla
> > 	diff -urN linux-vanilla $MYSRC > /tmp/patch
> 
> Include Tigrans recommended exclude list and info

Alan Cox is very concise. I shall interpret :)

He refers to the dontdiff file I currently maintain on:

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

and the command line to make the patch would become:

diff -urN -X dontdiif linux $MYSRC > /tmp/mysrc.patch

Regards,
Tigran

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