From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 7 12:32:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA24989 for current-outgoing; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:32:06 -0800 (PST) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA24967 Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:32:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA06238; Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:29:43 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199602072029.NAA06238@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION To: fenner@parc.xerox.com (Bill Fenner) Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 13:29:43 -0700 (MST) Cc: terry@lambert.org, current@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <96Feb7.111819pst.177478@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> from "Bill Fenner" at Feb 7, 96 11:18:06 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > In message <199602070026.RAA03938@phaeton.artisoft.com>you write: > >The output doesn't look particularly useful as input to "patch" > > You missed the "Index:" lines that cvs diff generates; they tell patch which > file to patch. (The FS_PATCHES.diff.gz that exists on freefall right now is > not a context diff, btw) I know. That was the source of my consternation. I specified a comamnd line of "cvs diff -c" and that is what came out. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.