From owner-freebsd-current Tue Feb 11 0:56:47 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E32B037B401 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:56:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (angelica.unixdaemons.com [209.148.64.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E942C43FB1 for ; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 00:56:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from hiten@angelica.unixdaemons.com) Received: from angelica.unixdaemons.com (hiten@localhost.unixdaemons.com [127.0.0.1]) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.7/8.12.1) with ESMTP id h1B8uhOm045953; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:56:43 -0500 (EST) Received: (from hiten@localhost) by angelica.unixdaemons.com (8.12.7/8.12.1/Submit) id h1B8uhub045952; Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:56:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from hiten) Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2003 03:56:43 -0500 From: Hiten Pandya To: David Leimbach Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Best method to produce patches? Message-ID: <20030211085643.GA45577@unixdaemons.com> References: <8A57567D-3C7E-11D7-8E7D-0003937E39E0@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8A57567D-3C7E-11D7-8E7D-0003937E39E0@mac.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD i386 X-Public-Key: http://www.pittgoth.com/~hiten/pubkey.asc X-URL: http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten X-PGP: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?search=Hiten+Pandya&op=index Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Feb 09, 2003 at 04:33:41PM -0600, David Leimbach wrote the words in effect of: > I am about to try to make some changes to FreeBSD current... > > Should I begin to use read-only CVS instead of CVSup for this work or > is it possible to generate diffs based on CVSup'd sources? > > What is the recommend method to use for playing with the source? > > I already found a small change in libc that should probably get > committed but I want to generate the patch properly for everyone's > approval. Checkout the development(7) manual page, written by Matt Dillon. Cheers. -- Hiten Pandya (hiten@unixdaemons.com, hiten@uk.FreeBSD.org) http://www.unixdaemons.com/~hiten/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message