diff, patch, and symbolic links

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Wed, 24 Apr 2002 Eric.Oosterhof at radisys.com wrote:
> I have a customized kernel tree, and am trying to create the appropriate
> patch file.  I use diff -ruN, and then subsequently use patch -p0 to apply
> the patch.  When I apply the patch, the files that I have changed in the
> include/asm-ppc directory cause conflicts with the include/asm symbolic
> links to the same files.  I think that I can resolve this by editing the
> patch file to remove any reference to changes in the include/asm tree, but
> the exclude file that I created that listed all the include/asm files
                                              ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> should have worked.  At any rate, I am looking for the "right" solution.

AFAIK you cannot exclude files using their full path names. Just using `asm'
works, though.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

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