On Saturday 05 March 2005 11:45, Jim Nelson wrote: >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >Hash: SHA1 > >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. > >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.
And this is a list of files to ignore. In the previous case, only one file, but I can see thats a very good way to weed out the noise. Thanks. >- -- >GPG Public key at pgp.mit.edu > >-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) >Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org > >iD8DBQFCKeIZevfmjTWdv3MRAjPYAJ9s3PrU/hjuILrGlIh3nuO/Scd4TACghQwQ >WD5p8VRpp6mfI+b+FOHZIn0= >=n8/k >-----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.34% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
