From owner-freebsd-doc Sun Jul 23 7:50: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA30337BA53 for ; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id HAA21751; Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sun, 23 Jul 2000 07:50:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007231450.HAA21751@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Cc: From: Nik Clayton Subject: Re: docs/20044: which order to put files in diff for patch? Reply-To: Nik Clayton Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR docs/20044; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Nik Clayton To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith 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 -- Internet connection, $19.95 a month. Computer, $799.95. Modem, $149.95. Telephone line, $24.95 a month. Software, free. USENET transmission, hundreds if not thousands of dollars. Thinking before posting, priceless. Somethings in life you can't buy. For everything else, there's MasterCard. -- Graham Reed, in the Scary Devil Monastery To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message