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Re: maintaining bash
- From: Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <sthoenna at efn dot org>
- To: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 17:58:26 -0700
- Subject: Re: maintaining bash
- Organization: bs"d
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- Reply-to: Talk Amongst Yourselves <cygwin-talk at cygwin dot com>
On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 08:43:50PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Apr 10, 2005 at 01:28:46PM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> > > You generate a patch (using "diff -puN" against the original sources),
> >
> > Funny, I used -p0rN4u for the fortune package, but I guess that's a
> > special case.
>
> I usually use -purN, actually, but I figured the recursive part was
> implied... What do -0 and -4 do, exactly?
0 gives 0 lines of context (default is 3), and 4 gives 4 lines of
context :)