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Date:      Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:48:03 -0500
From:      Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: usinig cvs diff to make a patch
Message-ID:  <p0624080bc5ae4f9d414e@[128.113.24.47]>
In-Reply-To: <49889842.9050103@gmail.com>
References:  <49889842.9050103@gmail.com>

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At 2:17 PM -0500 2/3/09, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
>I use a local cvs repo and I have modified a port and which to 
>submit an update for it how do I generate a patch file with cvs (cvs 
>diff seems to give a unusable format)?

try:   cvs diff -u

In my case, i have added the following line to my ~/.cvsrc file:

diff -uN

(-N means "treat absent files as empty")

-- 
Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad@freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih@rpi.edu



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