Re: [techtalk] making a patch from a cvs repository

2000-12-06 Thread Dan Nguyen
The patch should be diffed against the orginal source. That is the only way to guarantee it will work. There is never a guarantee that a patch will apply cleanly to anything other than the source the patch was diffed against. On Wed, Dec 06, 2000 at 10:48:27AM -0800, Anmol Khirbat wrote: > Hi >

[techtalk] making a patch from a cvs repository

2000-12-06 Thread Anmol Khirbat
Hi I imported some source code into a cvs repository, did lots of changes and made a Larry Wall patch. The problem is that I cannot apply the patch to a copy of the original source cleanly. When I run patch, I get loads of Hunk FAILEDs and a bunch of .rej files. I went through all the reject fi