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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

+3 −5
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@@ -28,12 +28,10 @@ new (default) values, so you can use: 


	grep "(NEW)" conf.new



to see the new config symbols or you can 'diff' the previous and

new .config files to see the differences:

to see the new config symbols or you can use diffconfig to see the

differences between the previous and new .config files:



	diff .config.old .config | less



(Yes, we need something better here.)

	scripts/diffconfig .config.old .config | less



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Environment variables for '*config'