On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:53:22PM +0100, Gregory Stark wrote: > "David Fetter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:12:23AM +0100, Heikki Linnakangas wrote: > >> Jim C. Nasby wrote: > >> >BTW, is there some trick to getting cvs diff to ignore files > >> >that aren't in the repo? > >> > >> Trick? That's what it does by default. > > > > I suspect he's talking about all the lines starting with '?' that > > diff produces. > > > > Lacking sophistication, I've been known to do: > > > > cvs diff [list of files here] |grep -v '^?' > the_file.diff > > Those lines go to stderr.
Not when I do "cvs diff." Is there something I should (un)set in my .cvsrc? > If you do "cvs diff > file" it spits out all the cvs file statuses > to the terminal but dumps the diff to the file. > > It doesn't matter, diffs can contain arbitrary junk between the file > diffs. patch only looks at the things it recognizes. IMHO, the diffs also need to be human-readable, and 500 useless lines starting with "?" don't help with that. Cheers, D -- David Fetter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://fetter.org/ phone: +1 415 235 3778 AIM: dfetter666 Skype: davidfetter Remember to vote! Consider donating to PostgreSQL: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Have you searched our list archives? http://archives.postgresql.org