On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Dr. David Kirkby
<david.kir...@onetel.net> wrote:
> But if there are two three files
>
> src/foo.c
> patches/foo.c
> patches/foo.c.diff
>
> what does patches/foo.c.diff possibly give me that could could get by
> running
>
> diff src/foo.c patches/foo.c ?

This requires that patches/foo.c was made from src/foo.c.  This is the
case for the current version, but if you look at a previous version of
patches/foo.c in the repository, you have to go out and get the
corresponding src/foo.c from the internet in order to see what the
change actually was.

--Mike

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