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[Harold L Hunt II]

Ruth,

No, cvs diff would have been useless.

The XFree86 CVS tree limits commits to only a few "core" members, which 
I am not one of which.  This means that I cannot just "cvs commit" my 
changes, I have to periodically create a set of patches (which I use 
"cvs diff" for) and a change log and send them to "patches at 
xfree86.org".   These patches are eventually committed.

The problem here is that I haven't done that in awhile, so someone 
sending me a "cvs diff" wouldn't do me a whole lot of good, since the 
code in cvs is quite old at the moment.  What they would have to do 
instead is pick a recent Test release, stick it in hw/xwin-TestXX then:

cd xc/programs/Xserver/hw
diff -U3 -N xwin-TestXX xwin > xwin-TestXX-PlusMyChanges.diff

That works quite nicely.


Harold

Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
> At 22:26 30/04/2003, you wrote:
> 
>> Heh... the only problem with that would be that, in this case, CVS is 
>> way out of date :)  I will probably synch up with CVS again soon.
> 
> 
> If the cvs source you're using is the one you compiled from, then cvs 
> diff will do the right thing: compare your modified sources against the 
> cvs source you started from, not the current version (whatever that 
> happens to be).
> 
> So cvs diff is (probably) your friend, in this case.
> 
> Ruth