From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 3 20:48:38 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE127106570D for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:48:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from smtp7.server.rpi.edu (smtp7.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.227]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B72D8FC2C for ; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:48:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from drosih@rpi.edu) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp7.server.rpi.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n13Jm382003291; Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:48:04 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <49889842.9050103@gmail.com> References: <49889842.9050103@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 14:48:03 -0500 To: "Aryeh M. Friedman" , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org From: Garance A Drosihn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0) X-RPI-SA-Score: 0.00 () [Hold at 20.00] 22490(-25) X-CanItPRO-Stream: outgoing X-Canit-Stats-ID: Bayes signature not available X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 128.113.2.227 Cc: Subject: Re: usinig cvs diff to make a patch X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2009 20:48:40 -0000 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