Re: How to make the diff file?

James Britt <[email protected]> Sat, 07 Oct 2006 07:43:28 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Organization ruby-doc.org
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Konrad Meyer wrote:
> I've made an attempt at doing one of the easier documentation bits,
> but I was wondering how I was supposed to make a diff. Is it enough to
> diff the old file and new file, or do I need to cvs diff the whole
> tree, or what?

This page

http://ruby-doc.org/documentation-guidelines.html


should have the proper pointers on generating the diff.

You need only diff the file being modified, using

  cvs diff -pu1 <filename1> <filename2>



James Britt