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Date:      Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:28:38 -0700
From:      Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
Cc:        Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: FreeBSD Documentation
Message-ID:  <AC2B0DEE-B2C6-4A18-882C-8513AEEFB647@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <201710292053.v9TKrCuZ072016@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
References:  <201710292053.v9TKrCuZ072016@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>

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> On Oct 29, 2017, at 13:53, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmg=
r.net> wrote:
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>>> On 2017-10-29 11:00, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
>>> Hi!
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>>>> How can we suggest edits for the docs?
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>>> Checkout the docs repo:
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>>> svn checkout https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/ .
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>>> Change the relevant files, create a new problem report on
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>>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/
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>>> and attach the svn diff to that problem report.
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>> Since the document in question is a man page, it actually lives in the
>> src tree.
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>> svn checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/ .
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>> cd usr.sbin/jail
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>> vi jail.8
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>> svn diff > jail_manpage.patch
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>> And then attach that patch to a bugzilla, or upload it to
>> reviews.freebsd.org
>=20
> Lets make this MUCH easier on a user.....
> cp /usr/share/man/man8/jail.8.gz /tmp
> cd /tmp
> gzip -d jail.8.gz
> cp -p jail.8 jail.8.orig
> vi jail.8
> diff -u jail.8.orig jail.8 >jail.8.patch
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> And then attach that patch to a bugzilla....
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> More commands, but much shorter amount of time.
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> (Of cource broken if your system is not -current or close to it)

No. Just do a sparse checkout of share/man/man8 ... less error prone and one=
 has a usable diff instead of a diff that might contain local modifications,=
 or be a few revisions behind.

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> Rod Grimes                                                 rgrimes@freebsd=
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