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Re: [PATCH] setup.exe build instructions outdated; build doesn't bootstrap cleanly


On 09/12/2012 09:42 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On 9/12/2012 9:28 PM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>
>> If you're going to do that you really should (re)learn how to submit a
>> proper patch.  A patch uses "diff -u" format and contains a ChangeLog.
> 
> It's been a decade since I last used "cvs diff".  I forgot that it
> doesn't include -u, since svn diff does it by default.

cvs does it automatically if you supply your ~/.cvsrc with correct
contents... What I miss is that even with ~/.cvsrc, you still don't get
the automatic paging that 'git diff' gives by default.

Yes, cygwin is one of the last holdouts still using CVS, making it more
likely that you don't notice an incomplete ~/.cvsrc on new machines as
fast.  I'd certainly welcome a conversion to git (and tolerate a
conversion to svn); especially since I know that newlib recently enabled
a git mirror.  And there's ways of using git as your frontend to a CVS
(or svn) repository.

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Eric Blake   eblake@redhat.com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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