Re: [PATCHES] OS/X startup scripts

[Mark Kirkwood <markir(at)paradise(dot)net(dot)nz>]

Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> David Fetter wrote:
> > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 03:31:40PM +1200, Mark Kirkwood wrote:
> > > David Fetter wrote:
> > > > cvs diff works just great until you want to add or remove a file
> > > > without write permissions to the CVS repository, i.e. when you've
> > > > checked out as anonymous.
> > > I usually saved an untouched version of the tree to compare against,
> > > so something like:
> > >
> > > $ cvs diff -Nacr pgsql.orig pgsql
> > >
> > > gives a complete patch including added/deleted files. It is a bit
> > > primitive, but is pretty easy to do!
>
> Except that it also includes diffs for generated files, which tend to be
> huge.  To work around that you need to create a list of files to
> exclude, and the whole thing (which was cumbersome already) starts to
> get unmanageable.
>
> I do use the cvsup mirror myself which makes things so much easier and
> faster.

Not so, you just do a

$ make maintainer-clean

before the diff, which clears all those out.

While maintaining a cvs mirror is also good, for a small piece of work 
(or a work on a well defined area of the code) this requires no fooling 
around with repositories at all (which is nice).

Cheers

Mark