From owner-freebsd-doc Wed May 29 21:50:26 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@hub.freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CCD737B421 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 21:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g4U4o2a76263; Wed, 29 May 2002 21:50:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Received: from nwww.freebsd.org (www.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8289837B406 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 21:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.freebsd.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nwww.freebsd.org (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g4U4jBhG066022 for ; Wed, 29 May 2002 21:45:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nobody@www.freebsd.org) Received: (from nobody@localhost) by www.freebsd.org (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g4U4jBOM066021; Wed, 29 May 2002 21:45:11 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200205300445.g4U4jBOM066021@www.freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 21:45:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Pete Zaitcev To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org X-Send-Pr-Version: www-1.0 Subject: docs/38728: How To Contribute should recommend unified diff Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org >Number: 38728 >Category: docs >Synopsis: How To Contribute should recommend unified diff >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-doc >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: doc-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Wed May 29 21:50:02 PDT 2002 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Pete Zaitcev >Release: -current >Organization: >Environment: >Description: The following page http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/contrib-how.html recommends contributions made with context diff, while in fact nobody uses context diffs anymore. FreeBSD userland supports unified diff. The documentation ought to be changed to recommend unified diff. >How-To-Repeat: >Fix: >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message