That sounds like a good way of doing it. The only other thing I can think of making it easier , is to use a visual cvs tool like Cervisia. But I have no experience with those. I guess Cervisia covers diff as well as the other aspects of CVS.
On 2/24/06, gl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I am not quite sure if I understand you correctly, but if you want to > > create a diff for one file against CVS then you do 'cvs diff -u file > >> patch' (snipped from > > The problem is where several mods are in the same file, and worse if they > appear in the same hunk together. You're then not only forced to adjust the > +/- line and range numbers in (to me) non-intuitive, but also cumulative > ways (line number changes higher up are supposed to ripple downwards). > > One solution that just ocurred to me is to copy my build folder, strip mods > I don't want included from the source files first, and then diff against > CVS. Is there an easier way though? > -- > gl > >
