Bug 16669
| Summary: | gendiff man page example | ||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | giulioo |
| Component: | rpm | Assignee: | Jeff Johnson <jbj> |
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 7.1 | Keywords: | FutureFeature |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2000-08-21 09:32:08 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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FIxed in rpm CVS. Thanks for noticing and reporting. |
The man page of gendiff explains very well how gendiff works, but then it makes an example that is not a perfect choice for the place where it's being done (a man page): === I.e. if you were going to edit somefile.cpp, copy it to somefile.cpp.save before editing it. Then edit the first copy (some- file.cpp). After editing all the files you need to edit in this fash- ion, enter the directory one level above where your source code resides, and then type $ gendiff somedirectory .orig > mydiff-orig.patch === if you backup your files with .save then gendiff wants .save as extension, not .orig. Since this is a manpage, where new users will look at, it would be better to use the backup extension consistently.