Jeff Wyman wrote:
>
>
> I'm a complete idiot who doesn't even know how to make diffs, so I thought
> I'd just let everybody know right away instead of figuring out how to
> write a diff and holding out on you all for the time that may take - I'm
> a slow learner.
>
The hardest thing about making diffs is to remember which order to put
the files. Do you say:
diff -c new-file old-file
or
diff -c old-file new-file ?
Alas, neither the man page for diff, nor the man page for patch are
that helpful - they give hints about this, but nothing explicit.
If someone tells me authoritively what the answer is, maybe I'll submit
a send-pr changing the man pages for diff and patch so that they are
more explicit on this issue.
(I always figure it out by a process of trial and error.)
--
Stephen Montgomery-Smith
Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
Phone 573-882-4540, fax 573-882-1869
http://www.math.missouri.edu/~stephen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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