usinig cvs diff to make a patch

[Chuck Robey]

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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
> I use a local cvs repo and I have modified a port and which to submit an
> update for it how do I generate a patch file with cvs (cvs diff seems to
> give a unusable format)?
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cvs diff -u gives the unified format (or cvs diff -c for context, get the
pattern?)  Or, copying from the web page
http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/notes/cvs/basic-usage.html, which shows how to use
the ~/.cvsrc file to make common cvs commands default the way you want them to,
you could put into that file the line "diff -u" so it always gives you the
unified diff format, which just happens to be the easiest for humans to read,
and the format specified in FreeBSD (hint, hint).
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