Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>> Alvaro Herrera wrote:
>
>>> Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be
>>> huge. To work around that you need to create a list of files to
>>> exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to
>>> get unmanageable.
>> $ make maintainer-clean
>>
>> before the diff, which clears all those out.
>
> Yeah, but then if you make a mistake with the patch and have to build
> again to retest, you have to wait the whole thing to compile, which can
> be annoying.
>
True - depends on the speed of your machine as to how annoying this
really is... (I'm using a PIII 1.26 GHz... takes 5 min with -O2 - good
excuse for a coffee etc).
However, as David brought up previously it is probably worth mentioning
several of the various CVS work-arounds in the docs, so people at least
get a good survey of the options - they can then choose whichever suits
their needs best.
Cheers
Mark