[PD-dev] diff patches how-to

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

On Oct 15, 2007, at 3:05 PM, zmoelnig at iem.at wrote:

> Quoting Steffen Juul <stffn at dibidut.dk>:
>
>> Hey,
>>
>> Is there a std. way to make diff patches (in the Pd world)? If so is
>> it written down somewhere? I've searched the /doc/dev and /dev
>> sections of puredata.(info|org) with no luck.
>
> the most standard way i know is "diff -u oldpatch.pd newpatch.pd"
>
> this of course is not very stable. if you find a better way please  
> tell us :-)

I think that diff -uw is pretty universal in the free software  
world.  (-w is ignore white space changes).  I usually use cvs to  
make the diff, so I copy the modified version into place in my CVS  
sources, and run:

cvs diff -uw mysource.c

.hc


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