Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:48:03 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: usinig cvs diff to make a patch Message-ID: <p0624080bc5ae4f9d414e@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <49889842.9050103@gmail.com> References: <49889842.9050103@gmail.com>
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At 2:17 PM -0500 2/3/09, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote: >I use a local cvs repo and I have modified a port and which to >submit an update for it how do I generate a patch file with cvs (cvs >diff seems to give a unusable format)? try: cvs diff -u In my case, i have added the following line to my ~/.cvsrc file: diff -uN (-N means "treat absent files as empty") -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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