[rt-users] what command to create a patch?

Rich Lafferty rich+rt at lafferty.ca
Thu Feb 7 13:59:03 EST 2002


On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 12:04:32PM -0600, Rob Walker (rob at myinternetplace.net) wrote:
> Do you want them generated by 'diff' or 'diff -c'?

I'm not Jesse, but standard practice is "diff -u" if you have a diff
that supports it, and "diff -c" if you don't -- but in that case, you
should probably think about installing GNU diff if you plan on
contributing patches regularly. :-)

  -Rich

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