From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 8 02:42:08 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA14904 for current-outgoing; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:42:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from vogon.muc.de (root@vogon.muc.de [193.174.4.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id CAA14895 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 02:41:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from [193.174.4.22] ([193.174.4.22]) by vogon.muc.de with SMTP id <93412-3>; Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:41:06 +0100 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Thu, 8 Feb 1996 11:43:30 +0100 To: terry@lambert.org From: lutz@muc.de (Lutz Albers) Subject: Re: FS PATCHES: THE NEXT GENERATION Cc: freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk In article <199602072029.NAA06238@phaeton.artisoft.com>, Terry Lambert writes: - -> In message <199602070026.RAA03938@phaeton.artisoft.com>you write: -> >The output doesn't look particularly useful as input to "patch" -> -> You missed the "Index:" lines that cvs diff generates; they tell patch which -> file to patch. (The FS_PATCHES.diff.gz that exists on freefall right now is -> not a context diff, btw) - -I know. That was the source of my consternation. I specified a -comamnd line of "cvs diff -c" and that is what came out. Hello, is there are reason not to use 'cvs rdiff' ? This should create patch output, at least according to the cvs man page. ciao lutz --------------------------------------------------------------------- Lutz Albers | What's good ? Luederitzstr. 14, 81929-Muenchen, Germany | Life's good - email:lutz@muc.de ph: +49-89-93940364 | But not fair at all http://www.muc.de/~lutz fax:+49-89-93940365 | (Lou Reed) Do not take life too seriously, you will never get out of it alive.