Re: Diff 2 folders

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On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:37 +0100, Adam Stirk wrote:
> GUI what's one of them? LOL
> 
> Command line only for me I'm afraid.
> 
> I have tried the -r approach before but I didn't get the required result, I 
> have just ran it with the -q option and it's picking up differences in the 
> .svn folders is there a way to exclude these folders? I tried --exclude but 
> it didn't seem to work.
> 
> Adam
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Reid Thompson [mailto:Reid.Thompson@xxxxxxxx] 
> Sent: 21 August 2008 14:03
> To: Adam Stirk
> Cc: T2 developers mailing list
> Subject: Re: [t2] Diff 2 folders
> 
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 11:39 +0100, Adam Stirk wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> >  
> > 
> > Is there an easy way too diff 2 folders?  For example I have two
> > folders one named “t2_orig” this is t2 trunk that has been un-modified
> > and one named “t2-trunk” which is my modified trunk with various fixes
> > and new packages in.
> > 
> 
> 
> use diff -r  plus any other diff options you want to use.
> 
> I imagine the gui diff programs would work similarly
> 
the man pages notes a -x option for pattern exclusion in file names