Re: Creating a patch

["Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 25.03.2005, at 00:04, Jasse Jansson wrote:
> This works fine, but the first two lines looks like this
>
> --- sbin/i386/fdisk/fdisk.c	2004-12-18 22:43:38.000000000 +0100
> +++ sbin/i386/fdisk/fdisk.c.local	2005-03-25 00:10:45.000000000 +0100
>
> It looks like to me that fdisk.c should be replaced with fdisk.c.local.

well, not really. this should work well

> The patches posted in the submit list don't have the .local extension.

yes, they are cvs diffs.

> Should I have diffed the checked out source with my changes
> against the repository?

yes, that's the easiest way:

cvs diff -u

> If this is the case, how do I make a reference to the repository
> that diff understands?
> The manpage don't even mention this case.

I'm not sure what you want to ask. cvs knows about the repository etc, 
because of its CVS/* maintainance files

cheers
  simon

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