Messages in this thread |  | | From | Peter Samuelson <> | Date | Sat, 11 Nov 2000 01:30:48 -0600 (CST) | Subject | Re: Patch generation |
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[Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>] > i would recommend to use the orig.el[1] from frederic.lepied with > Emacs, it save any files before editing with a particuliar prefix
I'll take a look, thanks.
> and you can generate the patch with the gendiff script (included with > rpm).
I did not know about gendiff (as a Debian user I rarely use RPM). Anyway I prefer my patch[2] as it's more flexible. gendiff doesn't let you pass in other diff options (true, many are not useful in this context but think about -d, -p, -b and -U).
Peter
[2] again, http://bugs.debian.org/64958 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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