From nobody Sat Oct 16 19:15:25 2021 X-Original-To: freebsd-ports@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1119E181318A for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:15:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=er0e=PE=quip.cz=000.fbsd@elsa.codelab.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [94.124.105.4]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4HWtBt6TCfz4dDc for ; Sat, 16 Oct 2021 19:15:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from SRS0=er0e=PE=quip.cz=000.fbsd@elsa.codelab.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31E4528416; Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:15:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from illbsd.quip.test (ip-78-45-215-131.net.upcbroadband.cz [78.45.215.131]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 697BB28411; Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:15:26 +0200 (CEST) Subject: Re: About GIT and committing submissions To: Robert Clausecker , freebsd-ports@freebsd.org References: <20211016112934.fnuderd67aprqjyb@nexus.home.palmen-it.de> <20211016122309.a4jd2mwvd6hj642t@nexus.home.palmen-it.de> From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> Message-ID: <02ca2411-9280-41b3-2071-127f1782f470@quip.cz> Date: Sat, 16 Oct 2021 21:15:25 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.10.0 List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-ports List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4HWtBt6TCfz4dDc X-Spamd-Bar: ---- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[] X-ThisMailContainsUnwantedMimeParts: N On 16/10/2021 15:55, Robert Clausecker wrote: > Hi Felix, > > Using diff -r to make patches works, too. I used to do stuff like this: > > cd /usr/ports > cp -r foo/bar foo/bar.orig > ... hack hack hack ... > diff -r foo/bar.orig foo/bar > > and it worked fine for making patches against the ports tree (unless files > were added or deleted). The important part is having a flatter learning > curve where you don't demand to keep the entire ports tree in a git > repository from someone just starting to get used to it. And no longer > supporting ports submitted as shar files will have this effect. Please keep shar and classic diff patches supported. Git is not the only tool for everybody on this planet. Kind regards Miroslav Lachman