Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:50:03 -0700 (PDT) From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: docs/20044: which order to put files in diff for patch? Message-ID: <200007231450.HAA21751@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR docs/20044; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org>
To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@cauchy.math.missouri.edu>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: docs/20044: which order to put files in diff for patch?
Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2000 22:57:43 +0000
On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:22:15PM -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
> If you are like me, when you create a patch, you don't know whether
> to write
> diff old-file new-file
> or
> diff new-file old-file
cp old-file new-file
mv old-file new-file
ln old-file new-file
diff old-file new-file
Unix is pretty consistent about this stuff.
N
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