Re: how to make a patch?

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik pobox com>]

Richard Hult wrote:
> Ok, I know that I have seen this on the list or website, but I cannot
> simply find it, no matter how much I look. So, how do I make a patch
> when I have fixed something in cvs? Sorry to bother with a simple
> question like this...

If you are working on source code you checked out from CVS, CVS makes it
easy for you:

	  # generate patch containing all changes to checked-out
	  # version of source code
	$ cvs diff -u > /tmp/my.patch

Jeff