From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 15 16:41:51 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02848 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:41:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp1.vnet.net (smtp1.vnet.net [166.82.1.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02843 for ; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 16:41:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rivers@dignus.com) Received: from dignus.com (ponds.vnet.net [166.82.177.48]) by smtp1.vnet.net (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id TAA03867; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:42:36 -0500 (EST) Received: from lakes.dignus.com (lakes.dignus.com [10.0.0.3]) by dignus.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id TAA07812; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:41:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from rivers@localhost) by lakes.dignus.com (8.9.1/8.6.9) id TAA03586; Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:41:41 -0500 (EST) Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 19:41:41 -0500 (EST) From: Thomas David Rivers Message-Id: <199902160041.TAA03586@lakes.dignus.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, steve@emmert.com Subject: Re: Stupid diff/patch question In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I am going to have to add a patch by hand to update some > hardware support on my laptop. I know what + and - mean > but what does ! do? I checked the man pages but no answer > there. It depends on how the diff was generated; but I believe the `!' means that this line was changed. That is, `+' means add a line, `-' means delete a line, and `!' means something on the line changed. Now, that something could be white space (if the appropriate options weren't used when the diff was created) - so it may not be obvious just what changed... I usually just cut-and-paste such lines & remove the leading `!'. - Dave Rivers - To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message