On 09/09/2011 09:05 AM, Vaibhav Jain wrote:
Hi,
I am not able to understand how diff between two trees of which one is
just contains hardlinks to another's files (cp -al )ing
works.I am asking this question here because I need to build a custom
kernel for which I need to generate patch. So the
documentation suggests to create a hardlink copy of the kernel source
tree using cp -al and then make changes to
one of the trees and run a diff.I am wondering that if files are
hardlinks then changes to one copy will affect another in which case
diff should give no output.
Also, the patch I created looks a little odd as it contains complete
modified files instead of just the differences.
Please help!
Thanks
Vaibhav Jain
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Make the hard link copy like normal. Then delete the directory that you
are making changes to (in the hard link directory), then copy the files
over with out hard links. That way "most" of the kernel tree is hard
linked, and just the portion you want to work on is a copy. That way the
diff will work.
Otherwise, skip the hard link part all together, and just make a full
copy. Uses lots of disk space and takes longer to diff.
-Kai Meyer
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