Re: How to make the diff file?

"Konrad Meyer" <[email protected]> Sat, 7 Oct 2006 12:05:35 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.ruby.documentation
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Alright, thanks.
I do that, and get:

  cvs diff: No CVSROOT specified!  Please use the `-d' option
  cvs [diff aborted]: or set the CVSROOT environment variable.

Any ideas?

On 10/7/06, James Britt <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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
>
>


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Conrad Meyer