RE: What options to use for diff?

["Anil Madhavapeddy" <anil@recoil.org>]

Alexander Farber (EED) wrote:
> 
> Also what is the differences between the 4 formats,
> which the "man patch" is talking about and which of
> them is prefered (for OpenBSD ports and in general)?
> 

Read the patch cycle (in section 11) of 
http://www.openbsd.org/checklist.html which has all the 
information you need.

(you want diff -p -u relative to ${WRKDIST} )

> 2) I am using Solaris at work, so if you know
>    that there is a difference between OpenBSD
>    and Solaris diff options, please tell me.

Yes they are different.  Solaris doesn't support unified
diffs afaik.

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Anil Madhavapeddy, <anil@recoil.org>
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