Re: Any CVS tricks for creating patch files?

[Spiro Trikaliotis]

Hello,

* On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 05:46:20PM -0400 address@hidden wrote:
 
> To create a patch, I could do this:
> 
>   % cvs co -d buggy -r Release_0_1 MyProj
>   % cvs co -d fixed -r Release_0_1_Bugfixes MyProj
> 
>   % LC_ALL=C TZ=UTC0 diff -Naur buggy fixed > Release_0_1_Patch
> 
> ...but I wonder if there are some CVS tricks to streamline the process
> further.

$ cvs co -r Release_0_1_Bugfixes MyProj
$ cd MyProf
$ cvs diff -uN -r Release_0_1 > ../Release_0_1_Patch

I think (but I have not tested it) that

$ cvs rdiff -uN -r Release_0_1 -r Releae_0_1_Bugfixes > Release_0_1_Patch

should work, too.

Regards,
   Spiro.

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