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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
a717417 ("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 authored and Linus Torvalds committed Mar 30, 2012
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Expand Up @@ -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'
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