Re: [PATCH] Re: diff command line?

[Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@verizon.net>]

On Saturday 05 March 2005 16:08, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 09:47:44PM +0100, Bodo Eggert wrote:
>> Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>> > On Sat, Mar 05, 2005 at 10:48:00AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> >> What are the options normally used to generate a diff for
>> >> public consumption on this list?
>> >
>> > diff -urpN orig new
>> >
>> > where "orig" and "new" both contain the top level "linux"
>> > directory, so the resulting patch can be applied with patch -p1.
>>
>> This seems to be a common mistake.
>
>I often use a simple trick to make my single file patches compatible
>with both -p0 and -p1 :
>
>diff -pruN ./dir/file.orig ./dir/file.new
>
>The './' can either get stripped by -p1 or left as is, thus the
> patch works for different scripts or people. The main disadvantage
> is that there's no base version indication in the patch with this
> method.
>
>Regards,
>Willy

Neat, Willy.  Are such patches generally acceptable here?

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