On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 03:35:45PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote: > Alvaro Herrera wrote: > >Mark Kirkwood wrote: > >>Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > > >>>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. > >>$ make maintainer-clean > >> > >>before the diff, which clears all those out. > > > >Yeah, but then if you make a mistake with the patch and have to build > >again to retest, you have to wait the whole thing to compile, which can > >be annoying. > > > > True - depends on the speed of your machine as to how annoying this > really is... (I'm using a PIII 1.26 GHz... takes 5 min with -O2 - good > excuse for a coffee etc). > > However, as David brought up previously it is probably worth mentioning > several of the various CVS work-arounds in the docs, so people at least > get a good survey of the options - they can then choose whichever suits > their needs best.
+1... BTW, is there some trick to getting cvs diff to ignore files that aren't in the repo? -- Jim Nasby [EMAIL PROTECTED] EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell) ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 6: explain analyze is your friend
