On Saturday 05 March 2005 16:08, Willy Tarreau wrote: >On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:47:44PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote: >> Russell King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >> >> This seems to be a common mistake. > >I often use a simple trick to make my single file patches compatible >with both -p0 and -p1 : > >diff -pruN ./dir/file.orig ./dir/file.new > >The './' can either get stripped by -p1 or left as is, thus the > patch works for different scripts or people. The main disadvantage > is that there's no base version indication in the patch with this > method. > >Regards, >Willy
Neat, Willy. Are such patches generally acceptable here? -- 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/
