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Documentation: mention scripts/diffconfig tool

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The kconfig documentation suggests using plain 'diff' to compare config
files and then adds "Yes, we need something better here".  Commit
a717417e7f ("kconfig: add diffconfig utility") added what that comment
was looking for.

Signed-off-by: Javi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Javi Merino
2012-03-30 13:37:02 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent f52a759327
commit 673d29f9a0
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@@ -28,12 +28,10 @@ new (default) values, so you can use:
grep "(NEW)" conf.new grep "(NEW)" conf.new
to see the new config symbols or you can 'diff' the previous and to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the
new .config files to see the differences: differences between the previous and new .config files:
diff .config.old .config | less scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less
(Yes, we need something better here.)
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Environment variables for '*config' Environment variables for '*config'