Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:59:49 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mhenrion@cybercable.fr> To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@math.missouri.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small handbook error Message-ID: <3975EC95.5E74A4C0@cybercable.fr> References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0007190228330.18954-100000@wysoft.tzo.com> <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu>
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Its diff -c old-file new-file Regards, Maxime Henrion Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > Jeff Wyman wrote: > > > > > > I'm a complete idiot who doesn't even know how to make diffs, so I thought > > I'd just let everybody know right away instead of figuring out how to > > write a diff and holding out on you all for the time that may take - I'm > > a slow learner. > > > > The hardest thing about making diffs is to remember which order to put > the files. Do you say: > > diff -c new-file old-file > > or > > diff -c old-file new-file ? > > Alas, neither the man page for diff, nor the man page for patch are > that helpful - they give hints about this, but nothing explicit. > > If someone tells me authoritively what the answer is, maybe I'll submit > a send-pr changing the man pages for diff and patch so that they are > more explicit on this issue. > > (I always figure it out by a process of trial and error.) > > -- > Stephen Montgomery-Smith > Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211 > Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869 > http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen stephen@math.missouri.edu > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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