Agree. In short you use preferably diff -u or diff -c and you apply the diffs with 'patch'. I don't have any samples right here but I am sure someone has some in the list.
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-----Original Message----- From: Greg Fausak [mailto:greg@august.net] Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 11:50 AM To: Marcelo Schmidt; 'Jan Janak' Cc: 'Jiri Kuthan'; 'serusers' Subject: RE: [Serusers] serweb / Make a patch file
Hi guys,
I've noticed that lately the list here seems to be getting a little short tempered. The main guys work very hard on this software. Often they get the same questions over and over again. Let's not forget that the authors of this software have worked thousands of hours for no compensation to write this. They don't owe us anything, and we should really appreciate the donation!
There is some effort that must be expended to identify a bug, fix it, then provide a patch to the authors so that they can easily administrate the checkin to the source tree. Simply pointing out a bug to one of the authors is nice, but if you are capable it would be polite to go the extra few steps.
I've been writing software for 25 years, and I am not clear how to make a patch file. Can someone provide an example :-)
Just my two cents,
---greg Greg Fausak
You wrote this couple of weeks before: I have no crystal ball and I am
not going to reply to this thread anymore... With the same info I sent
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