Re: how to make a patch

[Andreas Schuldei <andreas@debian.org>]

* Andreas Barth <aba@not.so.argh.org> [2005-09-07 13:57:47]:

> * Paolo Pantaleo (paolopantaleo@gmail.com) [050907 13:55]:
> > I have spent some time to write the bash completion for apt-file command.
> > I have written a pair of email to doko@debian.org and i didn't get any
> > response. Now i want to submit a patch for bash_completion file that
> > add the apt-file support.
> > 
> > How do i make a patch? Is
> > diff -u -c
> > correct?
> 
> I usually use
> diff -Nur
> if I have a full directory tree, but using diff -u will work equally
> well for two different files.

and because i never can remember if the first or the second file
is the one the resulting patch should apply to, i also use
"--from­file=" pointing to the original.

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