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Re: PATCH: -multiwindow with root window hidden...
- From: Harold L Hunt II <huntharo at msu dot edu>
- To: cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 10:56:06 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: -multiwindow with root window hidden...
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Ruth,
No, cvs diff would have been useless.
The XFree86 CVS tree limits commits to only a few "core" members, which
I am not one of which. This means that I cannot just "cvs commit" my
changes, I have to periodically create a set of patches (which I use
"cvs diff" for) and a change log and send them to "patches at
xfree86.org". These patches are eventually committed.
The problem here is that I haven't done that in awhile, so someone
sending me a "cvs diff" wouldn't do me a whole lot of good, since the
code in cvs is quite old at the moment. What they would have to do
instead is pick a recent Test release, stick it in hw/xwin-TestXX then:
cd xc/programs/Xserver/hw
diff -U3 -N xwin-TestXX xwin > xwin-TestXX-PlusMyChanges.diff
That works quite nicely.
Harold
Ruth Ivimey-Cook wrote:
At 22:26 30/04/2003, you wrote:
Heh... the only problem with that would be that, in this case, CVS is
way out of date :) I will probably synch up with CVS again soon.
If the cvs source you're using is the one you compiled from, then cvs
diff will do the right thing: compare your modified sources against the
cvs source you started from, not the current version (whatever that
happens to be).
So cvs diff is (probably) your friend, in this case.
Ruth