Tom Lane wrote: > Jeffery Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > what is the proper way to build a patch file that > > contains the changes? I have never done this before. > > "diff -c" against current sources, done so that the correct file > pathnames are visible in the diff output; that is, cd to top level > of distribution tree and do something like For the past years I do a cp -R src src.orig after the configure step. Whatever I do in the sources, a diff -cr src src.orig in the toplevel directory gives me a patch I can apply to my CVS checkout. With this I can never forget a single source file touched. Jan -- #======================================================================# # It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. # # Let's break this rule - forgive me. # #================================================== [EMAIL PROTECTED] #