Re: Patch generation

From: Chmouel Boudjnah (chmouel@mandrakesoft.com)
Date: Sat Nov 11 2000 - 00:31:44 EST


Peter Samuelson <peter@cadcamlab.org> writes:

> > (I prefer EMACS, which likes to unlink.)
> No it doesn't, not always. Your choice:
> (setq make-backup-files nil)
> (setq backup-by-copying t)

i would recommend to use the orig.el[1] from frederic.lepied with Emacs,
it save any files before editing with a particuliar prefix and you can
generate the patch with the gendiff script (included with rpm).

Footnotes:
[1] ftp://ftp.chmouel.org/pub/people/chmou/orig.el

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