Re: [Ratpoison-devel] Re: [RP] ratpoison moved to Savannah

[Pasi Kallinen]

On Sat, 4 Dec 2004, Shawn Betts wrote:

> "Bernhard R. Link" <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > * Shawn Betts <address@hidden> [041203 01:59]:
> > > For a while now I've wanted to move ratpoison to Savannah. Well, I've
> > > finally done that.
> >
> > The new cvs tree has no .cvsignore file in it. I personally like it this
> > way, as it makes it easier for me to create clean patches. Thus I wanted
> > to state so before this might be "fixed".
>
> The annoying thing is then all the machine generated files show up in
> my *cvs* buffer.
>
> In nethack-el, rcyeske wrote a utility called mkpatch that only diffs
> certain files in the nethack tree. Perhaps this is what we need here.
>
> for f in `cat diff_files`; do
>    diff -u $f $clean_rp_dir/$f
> done

At least the GNU diff has commandline params for excluding files:

       -x PAT  --exclude=PAT
              Exclude files that match PAT.

       -X FILE  --exclude-from=FILE
              Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.


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