[mythtv] Proper way to create a patch

Dan Morphis dan at milkcarton.com
Wed Jul 7 09:04:33 EDT 2004


Jason Donahue wrote:

>  Hello, I have done some coding for mythweb's music page to extend
>  it's functionality, and would like to submit a patch. Problem is, I'm
>  not sure how to do it right/conform to what is wanted.
>
>  I figure I should be doing 'diff -u', but my changes affect multiple
>  files, some in subdirectories, and creates a couple of files as well.
>  So, is there a nice command to create one big diff file on the
>  directory?

"With a modified CVS tree, just do 'cvs -z3 diff -ud > blah.diff'

Isaac"



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