Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Distributing (diff -u) patches

[Jan Hudec]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 23:35:57 +0200, Magnus Therning wrote:
> After having set up a local archive, imported the latest upstream
> version (from CVS) into it, and mirrored it I am now facing the next
> problem: how do I get 'diff -u' like patches to send upstream until they
> wisen up and start using tla themselves?
> 
> All tla commands seem to generate arch patch sets (which isn't too
> surprising, really).

When you have the changeset, run show-changeset --diffs command on it.
For changes not yet commited what-changed --diffs does the same.

> Or, don't I want to do that?

You loose some information in the process.

> BTW Can I combine several patch sets into one without having to check
> out the revisions some way?

revdelta and deltapatch commands. revdelta computest changeset between
two arbitrary revisions and deltapatch is revdelta + dopatch.

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