Re: Intro

From: F J Franklin (F.J.Franklin@sheffield.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Nov 03 2002 - 12:41:19 EST

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    On Sun, 3 Nov 2002, Mike Peters wrote:
    > Before I do so however I have a couple of questions. I'm not really up
    > on the subject of making patches so in view of this I've submitted a
    > very minor patch (following this mail). My first question is, is this
    > the right form for submitting patches?

    Some people use cvs diff, but I don't know the proper usage for that.
    I like to do:

    diff -Naur abi abi.mod > mod.patch

    which does a recursive diff on the whole tree.

    > Also, is it OK to just claim any non-assigned bugs?

    I suppose. Or just add a comment that you're looking into it...

    Have fun, Frank

    Francis James Franklin
    F.J.Franklin@shef.ac.uk

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