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Re: Quick question: how to generate a patch?

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AAubrey <aubreylee@gmail.com>
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Feb 28, 2006, 01:55 UTC
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On 2/28/06, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
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> I could well imagine that we still have some bug like that (ctime in
> particular is much less used than mtime, and thus more likely to have not
> been noticed). And it could be much worse on some less-commonly-used and
> less-unixy networked filesystem like smb, which is why I was wondering
> what OS version and filesystem Aubrey might be using.

I'm using suse9.3. The filesystem is EXT3. I think I forgot one thing last night. When I changed the file, I compiled the package to verify my modification. It should be the reason. But should it really affect the result of "git diff"?

Thanks, -Aubrey

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