[YBA] diff'ing kernel source trees

[Elazar Leibovich]

Can't you copy one tree into the other and then use git diff? (Assuming at
least one of them has a git repo it came from).


On Sun, Feb 3, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il> wrote:

> Hi Linux-IL colleagues,
> To diff two kernel trees based on the same version from the mainline, one
> of which might have been built, I assume that doing "make clean" in the
> tree that was built and then recursively diff'ing each
>
> .c
> .h
> .S
> .sh
> .pl
> *defconfig
> Makefile
> Kconfig
>
> is sufficient. Are there other files I should diff? Is there a list or
> regex in any of the FAQ's that has this specification?
>
> I tried the recommended "diff -Naur -X ./Documentation/dontdiff" but it
> still diff'ed a lot of binaries.
>
>  - yba
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