Re: [PATCH RESEND] Documentation: Mention scripts/diffconfig as a tool to compare config files

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On 03/13/2012 08:12 AM, Javi Merino wrote:

> The kconfig documentation suggests using plain 'diff' to compare
> config files and then adds "Yes, we need something better here".
> "a717417 kconfig: add diffconfig utility" added what that comment was
> looking for.
> 
> Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@xxxxxxx>


Applied, thanks.

> ---
>  Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt |    8 +++-----
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
> index c313d71..9d5f2a9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
> @@ -28,12 +28,10 @@ new (default) values, so you can use:
>  
>  	grep "(NEW)" conf.new
>  
> -to see the new config symbols or you can 'diff' the previous and
> -new .config files to see the differences:
> +to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the
> +differences between the previous and new .config files:
>  
> -	diff .config.old .config | less
> -
> -(Yes, we need something better here.)
> +	scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less
>  
>  ______________________________________________________________________
>  Environment variables for '*config'



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