On Thu, 26 May 2005 20:21:43 -0500 Alejandro Bonilla wrote:Yes.
| Hi,
| | Quick and fast question here. I'm starting to create patches (diff) | :-) so, I googled for a while and most say that one could use the diff | -up or diff -Naur. They both look to me very similar and honestly -up | works for me. Still, what command will make the cleanest patch and which | one is mostly used?
You looked at 'man diff', right?
and linux/Documentation/SubmittingPatches, which says:well, the "or" doesn't tells me the that there is a best way. That's the deal.
Use "diff -up" or "diff -uprN" to create patches.
So you use the options that are appropriate for your patches.Excelent.
If you are patching only one file (or a few files in the same
directory), -up is usually fine.
If you have patches in multiple directories and you want diffAdding new files into the whole source? Like it will make a patch with the full content and then create the file when patching the source? Thanks for that one, sounds like I will need to use it.
to search in subdirectories for patches, you need to use -r
(recursive).
If you are adding new files, you need to use -N.
Is there a specific problem that you are trying to solve?I was just patching a README :-) and the patch looked too big and/or bulky, so I noticed it was using a lot of lines from the document, but I was only changing a single letter in a word. i.e. I changed/added 20 letters in total, and the patch is like 200 words.
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~Randy