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wb9688
Asked: 2015-08-27 05:17:37 +0800 CST

How do I make a unified patch with diff?

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I have two directories src and src-with-fixes. I want to make a unified patch, so people can download the src dir and the patch file and run patch -p1 < patch.diff and get the fixes in the src dir.

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  1. Best Answer

    You could run:

    diff -ruN src src-with-fixes > patch.diff

    Where:

    • -r means "recursive"
    • -u means "produce a unified format diff"
    • -N means "treat absent files as empty"
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