[Gnu-arch-users] Creating a diif (-uN) from two revisions

[Esben Mose Hansen]

Hi,

I can't seem to find anything about this. I use arch to track free projects 
where I do not have write access. When I go merry hacking on the project, I 
use several branches to split the work (and the eventual patch) into smaller, 
logically related bits.  

This works fine until I want to produce the actual patches. Most projects 
wants these in a diff -uN -style patch. I can't seem to find out how to do 
this in a reasonably intelligent way. Until now, I done something like this:

(1) tla get revision1
(2) tla get revision2

(3) delete arch-files

(4) diff -uN revision1 revision2 > patchfile

This seems errorprone and cumbersome, even by tla standards ;-) How can I this 
in a better way? The tla changes and tla delta seems useless because they do 
not include new or removed files in a usable manner. 

I appreciate any help --- like last time, I will update the wiki with the 
answer :)

-- 
regards. Esben