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Subject: Re: What are the best diff options ?
In-Reply-To: <20011027104214.A7633@rhadamanth>
To: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:22:15 +0200 (CEST)
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From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net>
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setantae wrote:
> 
> I'm going to spend this morning cleaning up a few manpages, etc.
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html indicates that the best options
> to diff would just be a simple -c.

-u is far more better than -c.

> However, this produces output that doesn't clearly show what has changed and
> looks nothing like most of the other diffs I have seen.
> 
> Should I be using this option, or does it not really matter ?
> 
> I'm probably only going to be patching one file at a time.

here is the content of alias I use :

diff -ruN -x CVS -x work -x "#*" -x "*~" -x "*.orig" -x "*.rej" \
	  -I "\$Id.*\$" -I "\$FreeBSD.*\$"

Cyrille.
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Cyrille Lefevre                 mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net

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