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From: Hans-Bernhard B. <br...@ph...> - 2005-08-17 16:05:54
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Ga=EBl Varoquaux wrote: > I feel really stupid : I do not know how to do a "patch". I think i= t > involves the "diff" program, but I have not been succesfull at make it > give the right kind of output=20 > and that does not look like the patches I download from sourceforge= =2E You want to use something like diff -urp old_directory new_directory instead. If you have added any files (like 'povray.trm'), also check=20 out options -N and --unidirectional-new-file in the 'diff'=20 documentation. For diffs that are made not for patching, but just for=20 looking at what you did, it often helps to use options -w and -B, too,=20 so unimportant re-indentations of source code don't show up in the output= : diff -uwBrp old new |