make patch how-to

Kocil · 12-18-2003, 10:08 AM

Dear all.

This is a "newbie learn to hack" question.

Suppose I have an original tarball, extracted on /home/src/aaaa-1.0
Then I copy it to a new directory, /home/src/aaaa-1.0.a.
I make some modification on several files under
/home/src/aaaa-1.0.a/src.

How can I make a patch file so somebody else
can simply patch the original code as:

patch -p1 < the_newbie.patch

Thanks.

vladkrack · 12-18-2003, 01:24 PM

Hi,

You can do it with:

# diff -Nur /home/src/aaaa-1.0 /home/src/aaaa-1.0.a > the_newbie.patch

Kocil · 12-24-2003, 11:33 PM

Thanks mate.