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Commit 673d29f9 authored by Javi Merino's avatar Javi Merino Committed by Linus Torvalds
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Documentation: mention scripts/diffconfig tool 



The kconfig documentation suggests using plain 'diff' to compare config
files and then adds "Yes, we need something better here".  Commit
a717417e ("kconfig: add diffconfig utility") added what that comment
was looking for.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJavi Merino <javi.merino@arm.com>
Cc: Michal Marek <mmarek@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f52a7593

Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt

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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'