[Freeciv-Dev] Re: removing Freeciv.h from CVS

[Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2000/04/03 12:55 , Jules Bean wrote:
>> Jeff Mallatt <jjm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> 
>> > Here's a patch that supports removing Freeciv.h from the CVS.
>> > Developers will also want to add Freeciv.h to their "diff -X"
>> > exclude file.
>
>Naive newbie question: How is this better/worse/different from the
>.cvsignore mechanism?

The .cvsignore files are used by "cvs diff".  The exclude file is used by
the "diff -X no.freeciv" command, this being the stand-alone diff.

I keep two directories on my machine (as you may infer from my patches).
One called FreecivCVS, which I keep up to date with the latest CVS.  The
other called freeciv is the diretory in which I do development.  When I
want to generate a patch, I do a local diff between the two by, e.g., "diff
-ruN -X no.freeciv FreecivCVS freeciv >some-patch-file.diff".  This is
faster than a "cvs diff -u" across my 33k modem link to the Internet :)

jjm