Date: Tue, 6 Feb 1996 17:59:06 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer <julian@ref.tfs.com> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: terry@lambert.org, current@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION Message-ID: <199602070159.RAA01737@ref.tfs.com> In-Reply-To: <199602070026.RAA03938@phaeton.artisoft.com> from "Terry Lambert" at Feb 6, 96 05:26:27 pm
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> The output doesn't look particularly useful as input to "patch", unless > you write an awk/perl script to reformat the "cvs diff" file information > (this seems to be more work than checking out a spamable tree). > it always works for me... Patch is very good about knowing which bits of the patch file are CVS guff, and tends to ignore that.. I've done 150 file patches with a simple "cvs diff -c sys" > See above. "cvs diff -c" does not result in a file that can be used as > input to "patch" without some post-processing. I bet you'd be surprised..
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