From: Eric Youngdale (eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil)
Date: 12/01/92


From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
Subject: Re: What are these 'diff' beasts?
Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1992 15:06:53 GMT

In article <ByKDz0.4Ex@cmcl2.nyu.edu> wuwei@acf3.nyu.edu (Wei Wu) writes:
>While we are on the subject, how do I generate the context diff's for
>a fairly large program where the modifications are under serveral
>different directories and sub-directories.

        diff -c -r dir1 dir2

will compare all of the files in two different directory trees, and do a
context diff for each file that is common to both trees. There is a --new-file
option, which will generate "diffs" to create any new files in dir2.

-Eric

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Eric Youngdale