On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 06:41:00PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
> At 01:42 PM 9/13/2001 -0700, Benjamin Stuhl wrote:
> >Could we please get in the habit of adding a -c or a -u to
> >our CVS diffs, just as we would with normal patches?
>
> Yes, please!
>
> All diffs posted to the list should be either -c or -u diffs. Both can be
> fed to patch, and both read far more easily than the plain diff output.
The following lines, placed in ~/.cvsrc, make cvs work much better:
update -dP
diff -u
The -d option to update makes cvs check out newly-created directories;
without it, it will silently ignore them. -P prunes empty directories,
which compensates for the fact that directories can't be deleted.
And the -u to diff (or -c) is just a good idea. :>
- Damien
