Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2001 21:22:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@citeweb.net> To: setantae <setantae@submonkey.net> Cc: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: What are the best diff options ? Message-ID: <200110271922.f9RJMG268853@gits.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011027104214.A7633@rhadamanth>
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setantae wrote: > > I'm going to spend this morning cleaning up a few manpages, etc. > > http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html indicates that the best options > to diff would just be a simple -c. -u is far more better than -c. > However, this produces output that doesn't clearly show what has changed and > looks nothing like most of the other diffs I have seen. > > Should I be using this option, or does it not really matter ? > > I'm probably only going to be patching one file at a time. here is the content of alias I use : diff -ruN -x CVS -x work -x "#*" -x "*~" -x "*.orig" -x "*.rej" \ -I "\$Id.*\$" -I "\$FreeBSD.*\$" Cyrille. -- Cyrille Lefevre mailto:clefevre@citeweb.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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