Tom Lane wrote:
> Jeffery Collins <collins@onyx-technologies.com> writes:
> > what is the proper way to build a patch file that
> > contains the changes? I have never done this before.
>
> "diff -c" against current sources, done so that the correct file
> pathnames are visible in the diff output; that is, cd to top level
> of distribution tree and do something like
For the past years I do a
cp -R src src.orig
after the configure step. Whatever I do in the sources, a
diff -cr src src.orig
in the toplevel directory gives me a patch I can apply to my
CVS checkout. With this I can never forget a single source
file touched.
Jan
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