Re: [ot] making patches (was: abc2ly and beams)

[Erik Sandberg]

On Monday 19 April 2004 21.50, Matthias Kilian wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 19, 2004 at 08:14:19PM +0200, Jan Nieuwenhuizen wrote:
> > Next time, please send a unified diff, see
> > http://lilypond.org/web/devel/participating/
>
> Small hint on diffing: I typically have two directories: project (the
> original sources), and project.local (a copy, probably locally modified).
>
> So, I cd to project.local, edit here and there, build, test, make clean,
> and finally do a quick diff -rq ../project . to see what I've changed
> (and what object files, executables, etc. didn't have been nuked by make
> clean), and finally a diff -rNup ../project . > ../project.diffs.

Kili,
have you tried 'cvs diff' ? Unless you use a dialup connection I'd find this 
much easier.. it does exactly what you say, except ../project is substituted 
by the latest sources from CVS.

Erik