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From: dfk@dukvlsi2.cs.duke.edu (David F. Kotz)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: how to make a patch for hierarchy?
Keywords: patch, diff
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Date: 18 Jul 88 16:27:01 GMT
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I have a program whose sources are arranged in a tree of directories.
I made some changes, and I want to make a "patch" to distribute the
changes. How does one go about making a patch file for this situation? 

If the original is in old/ and the new version is in new/, I tried

cd new
diff -c -r ../old . > ../patchfile

but patch (applied with (cd old; patch <../patchfile) complained
whenever a file in a subdirectory was changed; it prompted for the
name of the file to patch. 

Is this impossible? Do I need to flatten the tree?

David Kotz
Department of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham, NC 27706
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