From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jul 19 19:20:53 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C4EC37B983 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 19:20:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net) Received: (qmail 4641 invoked by uid 0); 20 Jul 2000 02:20:39 -0000 Received: from pc19f5a9a.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (193.159.90.154) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 20 Jul 2000 02:20:39 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA12997 for stable@FreeBSD.ORG; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:54:25 +0200 Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:54:25 +0200 From: Gerhard Sittig To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Small handbook error Message-ID: <20000719215425.O24476@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: stable@FreeBSD.ORG References: <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <3975C623.1EFBFAE8@math.missouri.edu>; from stephen@math.missouri.edu on Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:15:47AM -0500 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 10:15 -0500, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote: > > 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 ? Try to read it like this: "show me what to do to get _from_ file1 _to_ file2" which will make you write down "diff -c old new". Unless you want to learn how to downgrade. :) So it's not just about "what's different" but more about documenting a development heading for a direction. And I feel the invocation is quite intuitive once you get the above "interpretation". virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message