Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | From | Charles Lepple <> | Subject | Re: dontdiff for 2.6.0-test4 | Date | Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:29:37 -0400 |
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Mike Fedyk wrote: [...] >>mrproper: >> @find . $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) \ >> \( -name '*.orig' -o -name '*.rej' -o -name '*~' \ >> -o -name '*.bak' -o -name '#*#' -o -name '.*.orig' \ >> -o -name '.*.rej' -o -size 0 \ >> -o -name '*%' -o -name '.*.cmd' -o -name 'core' \) \ >> -type f -print | xargs rm -f >> $(call cmd,mrproper) >> > > > But dontdiff is a list of files that must be skipped, not a regex, right? > Then dontdiff will be useless until a build has been done on that kernel tree.
Not really. From the diff manpage:
-X FILE --exclude-from=FILE Exclude files that match any pattern in FILE.
You may want to take a look at a copy of dontdiff (noting the shell patterns). It looks like dontdiff could be generated from mrproper's list of scratch files (with the exception of the '-size 0' test in the 'find' command) but I could be wrong.
FWIW, the $(RCS_FIND_IGNORE) part skips some version-control directories that dontdiff doesn't mention. I guess the party line is that you should use the version control system for doing diffs in that case, but whatever.
If you try to replace dontdiff with a dynamically generated list, be sure and have a few folks test it out on different trees (including ones managed by BK and SVN) to make sure you haven't broken anything.
-C
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