Re: Incremental Patch Building Script

From: Tim Waugh (twaugh@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Apr 19 2002 - 18:16:36 EST

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On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:11:46AM -0700, Robin Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >
> > There's already interdiff from Tim Waugh's patchutils [1] that makes
> > incremental diffs between patches. And interdiff doesn't need the source
> > the patches are against (IOW: to make an incremental patch between two
> > kernel -pre patches you don't need any kernel sources). It's pretty
> > simple:
> >
> > interdiff -z patch-2.4.19-pre6.gz patch-2.4.19-pre7.gz > mydiff
>
> I did try interdiff before writing this script, and it wasn't generating
> the right output.

I think that the problems Robin was seeing are resolved in
patchutils-0.2.12.

(The output was correct, but needlessly lengthy.)

Tim.
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