From owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Apr 5 00:02:42 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C0E73AB for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 00:02:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bsd-src@helfman.org) Received: from mail-ve0-f170.google.com (mail-ve0-f170.google.com [209.85.128.170]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F6CC634 for ; Fri, 5 Apr 2013 00:02:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ve0-f170.google.com with SMTP id 15so3172432vea.15 for ; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:02:35 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:x-received:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :x-gm-message-state; bh=gQ+IUV4WSlqmQNghrP2nTrcgEB/tG4/DoXwYDF7+QPk=; b=L3qaallq/+RdSxutSOhZb8dhnR1rBr+KJgVzbQfBJWXyzZEhMNchnGrWtl7xQgXZiq oPjXAhBxx6EPMpG85qH8ljeub1KrTepWPEHE2pDN7AD6nr8dlICftjxrkuWWXT6lQoKd 7hYht7UR8NwYPeqtUNx+16MRt66o1Zakmqf2kyEhRzEIxHhxkxv4tozZW/Xw9LX0ac2S uZ4T0BTXCfb07mKlKvBnD0ma88BJ78ScScaj7CBNCOldkSozy4rb8LYy7Mgid5ZcvY/6 vA3eK5W3XyMl9WmndYruJnBRDSupfgZA1795eYpKurxg2YJcT1Wb3ScpDZyTiUvFDbNH jk0g== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.58.90.5 with SMTP id bs5mr6379410veb.60.1365120155595; Thu, 04 Apr 2013 17:02:35 -0700 (PDT) Sender: bsd-src@helfman.org Received: by 10.59.13.67 with HTTP; Thu, 4 Apr 2013 17:02:35 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <515E12F6.9010203@rodperson.com> References: <515E12F6.9010203@rodperson.com> Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 17:02:35 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: NSVMSxTUZ4F_CI6U42tCjPi288g Message-ID: Subject: Re: Problem sending update to a port From: Jason Helfman To: Rod Person X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQndlB6KF79eioNMQSOOR0rVGkDPAfs7YCJDrtO/TZ/vtlud+6wv7OcYOeY3DwlmQDAv4iH4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.14 Cc: FreeBSD Ports List X-BeenThere: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting software to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:02:42 -0000 On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rod Person wrote: > I'm trying to send an update to the port graphics/fotoxx that I maintain. > > I've created a diff of all the changes and tried to submit it but I get > an error that the diff file is too large. The diff is 5.9MB. How do I > submit such a large change? > > -- > Rod Person > http://www.rodperson.com > > "When Columbus discovered America, where were we?" > -Ignacio Ek, Maya, 1970 > > For a diff of this size, you should open a PR, and post a link to the diff that you have posted at an external location. If you don't have access to an external hosting service, you may send it to me and I can help with this. Example. You may find the diff for this update here: http://mylocation.com/files/something.diff HTH -jgh -- Jason Helfman | FreeBSD Committer jgh@FreeBSD.org | http://people.freebsd.org/~jgh | The Power to Serve