Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:39:35 +0200 | From | "Ph. Marek" <> | Subject | Re: diff -X exclude_file for patching live kernels? |
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>Hi guys, > >Does some kind soul have an exclude file for being able to run > >diff -urN -X exclude_file linux linux-patched > my.patch 2>&1 > >i.e. I can put patterns like "*.o" ".config" etc etc but it will take time >to find them all out. > >This would allow making patches from the compiled patched tree without >having to do "make mrproper" each time. Well, the Best(tm) Way would be to reverse-parse the Makefiles and see which files are generated by some others and then ignore them. Could be a extension to make, diff or both - or a seperate program.
Would be very usefull in other projects too...
Regards,
Phil
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