I just found nice little (freely available online) book on patch and diff: http://www.network-theory.co.uk/diff/manual/ Dave On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 04:57, Davidlohr Bueso A wrote: > diff and patch are your friends, say you have a orginal.c and a > modificaction.c You could do: > > diff -u original.c modification.c > my_patch.patch > > Then to apply this patch to the original file you would do: > > patch -p1 original.c my_patch.patch > > There is quite a bit of info on these tools (plus the man pages). > > Dave > > > On Thu, 2004-05-27 at 03:59, linux lover wrote: > > hello, > > 1) how to make track of log of whatever > > kernel source i modified. that is how can i know > > changes to original file i had done if i have to > > restore it? > > 2) how if i modified a file the patch can be > > generated. is there any tool? > > > > regards, > > linux_lover > > > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. > > http://messenger.yahoo.com/ > > > > -- > > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > > > > > > -- > Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. > Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ > FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/ > >
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