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On 04/04/13 20:02, Jason Helfman wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 4:55 PM, Rod Person <rodperson@rodperson.com
> <mailto:rodperson@rodperson.com>> 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
> <http://people.freebsd.org/%7Ejgh>  | The Power to Serve

Ok. Thanks I can post the diff on my site. Will do.

-- 
Rod Person
http://www.rodperson.com
  
"When Columbus discovered America, where were we?"
  -Ignacio Ek, Maya, 1970