File Diff/Patch Program?

[jitspoe]

A while back, somebody (Bain, maybe?) made a patch for a new version of paintball2.  I figure it's probably time to start again with a new patch for build 16 and on.  I think most everybody has build 16 by now.  What's a good tool for comparing two directories and just selecting files that are new or different?

[XtremeBain]

Yeah, 'twas me.  There was a good reason for that too -- I was on dial-up and was dying to play it, but didn't want to wait an hour to download 20MB of everything when only a few hundred KBs had changed.  Fortunately I had access to a shell on the eR33t.com box, so I used some built-in switches on command-line tar or zip to make an archive with the differential then.

We should maybe explore additional uses of CVS (or maybe even use SVN ) and start tracking assets (i.e. game files) on their too.  Making release and patch archives would be trivial with a little project automation doing some of its magic behind the scenes.

[jitspoe]

Yeah, I've been meaning to set something like that up -- particularly for the high-res textures since there's still a lot of development going on with those.

[TinMan]

I vote for svn.

[toM|vendettA]

i have never really been sure of the difference between svn/cvs, what sets the two apart?

[TinMan]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion_(software)#Branching_and_tagging

[jitspoe]

I see tar has a --diff, but it doesn't really go into depth on what it does.  Is that what you used?  Did you do some stuff manually or is there a magical switch to just build an archive out of the different files?

[Cobo]

I believe TortoiseSVN has Diff and Patch features, but since the source is in CVS idk, Perhaps TortoiseCVS?