Re: merge/diff

[Derek Scherger]

Great idea, thanks Mike!

For the record, here's what I did:

cvs diff -bw -r HEAD -r branch-tag filename > patch.txt
vi patch.txt
patch < patch.txt

I was a bit surprised when the patch applied cleanly after I had
(carefully) hacked a bunch of stuff out, only one hunk failed and
everything else worked out great. A few minor edits the resulting file
and I'm away.

Thanks again!

Cheers,
Derek

Mike Castle wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Mar 02, 2001 at 03:52:03PM -0700, Derek Scherger wrote:
> > Is there any way to control the diffing done by cvs update -j so that it
> > ignores whitespace differences? At the moment I'm reduced to manually
> > applying the changes that cvs diff -bw sees rather than trying to fix up
> > the conflicts caused by merging. Neither situation is particularly
> > pleasant however!
> 
> If you do a cvs diff -bw -u and then use patch, do you get fewer conflicts 
> than
> using cvs straight forward?
> 
> I know that in the past I had a situation where I could not get cvs to
> merge and had to resort to using the patch program externally after
> generating diffs in a slightly different manner.
> 
> mrc
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