On 14 Mar 2001, Lars Gullik Bjønnes wrote:

> diff -upN
> rdiff -upN
> update -dP
> 
> the 'N' make the diff take new and deleted files into consideration.

except cvs diff is broken. You also need to run Amir's "fixdiff.pl" on
the patch, http://www.movement.uklinux.net/

I tried the other day to add this functionality to patch (along with a
prefix-append-always-succeeds option) but that is some really really scary
code...

(no wonder it hasn't been touched for years despite its flaws)

john

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