From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 11:16:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from camus.cybercable.fr (camus.cybercable.fr [212.198.0.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 770D237BFB2 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 11:16:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mhenrion@cybercable.fr) Received: (qmail 16753190 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2000 17:56:41 -0000 Received: from r121m199.cybercable.tm.fr (HELO cybercable.fr) ([195.132.121.199]) (envelope-sender ) by camus.cybercable.fr (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jul 2000 17:56:41 -0000 Message-ID: <3975EC95.5E74A4C0@cybercable.fr> Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:59:49 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.73 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Stephen Montgomery-Smith , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Small handbook error References: <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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