Re: Patch generation

From: Infamous Woodchuck (garzik@pobox.com)
Date: Thu Nov 09 2000 - 17:57:52 EST


On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Ivan Passos wrote:
> Where in the src tree can I find (or what is) the command to generate a
> patch file from two Linux kernel src trees, one being the original and the
> other being the newly changed one??
>
> I've tried 'diff -ruN', but that does diff's on several files that could
> stay out of the comparison (such as the files in include/config, .files,
> etc.).

You are running the correct command for diff, you are just not running
'make mrproper' to clean your source tree before diffing. :)

        Jeff

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