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Date: Tue, 15 May 2007 13:54:56 +1200
From: Mark Kirkwood <markir@paradise.net.nz>
Subject: Re: [PATCHES] OS/X startup scripts
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Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
>>> David Fetter wrote:
>>>> cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file
>>>> without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've
>>>> checked out as anonymous.
>>>>
>>> I usually saved an untouched version of the tree to compare against,
>>> so something like:
>>>
>>> $ cvs diff -Nacr pgsql.orig pgsql
>>>
>>> gives a complete patch including added/deleted files. It is a bit
>>> primitive, but is pretty easy to do!
> 
> Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be
> huge.  To work around that you need to create a list of files to
> exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to
> get unmanageable.
> 
> I do use the cvsup mirror myself which makes things so much easier and
> faster.
> 

Not so, you just do a

$ make maintainer-clean

before the diff, which clears all those out.

While maintaining a cvs mirror is also good, for a small piece of work 
(or a work on a well defined area of the code) this requires no fooling 
around with repositories at all (which is nice).

Cheers

Mark