[Gllug] Building a patch

[Nix]

On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Adrian McMenamin announced authoritatively:
> On Thu, 1 December, 2005 5:00 pm, Nix wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, Adrian McMenamin announced authoritatively:
>> diff -ur will do that, although it's a very strange requirement.
>>
>>> patch -ur ./alsa-lib-orig ./alsa-lib just tells me which files are in
>>> one
>>> directory set and not the other
>>
>> [s/patch/diff/ as you posted]
>>
>> But this is what you wanted!
>>
> Sorry, I obviously wasn't very clear. I had patched 4 or 5 C files and
> rather than post 4 or 5 patches to the mailing list I wanted to get all
> the patches in one file.

Well, that's what the -r switch to diff does: you'll get a long
stream of output with patches to multiple files in it.

grep for ^--- in the output for proof (or pipe it into the lovely
diffstat program).

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