On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 04:09:54PM -0500, Jeremy Erwin wrote:
>
> If you use emacs, or another editor that leaves "backup files" about, 
> it's probably a good idea to remove those before making the diff. Trust 
> me, when it comes time to prepare a new patch against foo-1.2.4, you 
> don't want copies of Makefile~ and configure~ clutering up the patch 
> file, and complicating the task of reconstructing fink related changes.

Alternatively, you could just pass -x'*~' to diff:)

dan

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