Problem making patch!!!

[Ivan Deras]

Richard Lärkäng wrote:

> IVAN wrote:
>
>> I was tried to make a patch for the changes i was made
>> for wt3 win32 port, for this i did the following:
>>
>> cvs login
>> Enter to qt-src-dir/kernel and exec the following
>> command:
>>
>> cvs diff *_win.cpp > patch.diff
>>
>> I put '*_win.cpp' because that's the only files i was
>> modified (not all, of course), but the resulting patch
>> is very big about 1MB, that's doesn't make sense
>> because there are so much changes!!! And then i was
>> opened the resulting patch.diff file, and surprise:
>> All the lines apllication_win.cpp from the server
>> appear with '<' , and all the lines from my local
>> application_win.cpp appear with '>', this look like if
>> all the had changed but that's not true!!!
>>
>> And then did i make something bad??? Missing some flag!!!
>>  
>>
> Hmm, does it make a difference if you do a cvs up before?
>
> cvs diff -ub > patch.diff
> Should be what you want btw,
> -b makes it ignore whitespace changes (could that be it?)
> -u makes the patch much more readable 

Great, the resulting patch file is very little!!!! do -b flag  make the 
difference???

>
> And as you haven't changed any other files you don't need
> *_win.cpp (I guess it could be a little bit faster, bit I don't
> think it matters) 

Yes, the idea to put *_win.cpp is to gain speed, because i use phone 
conection!!!!

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> Richard
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