From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Sep 26 13:41:46 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from dt014n8c.san.rr.com (dt014n8c.san.rr.com [24.30.129.140]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20BD614DD8 for ; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:41:43 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Received: from gorean.org (master [10.0.0.2]) by dt014n8c.san.rr.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA17618; Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:57:00 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Doug@gorean.org) Message-ID: <37EE856E.80435F74@gorean.org> Date: Sun, 26 Sep 1999 13:43:26 -0700 From: Doug Organization: Triborough Bridge & Tunnel Authority X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Ovens Cc: ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help with RCS files, patches, and PR's required. References: <19990926162508.E282@marder-1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Mark Ovens wrote: > I've just made patches for the bochs port for the latest source > code (990925, which allows Win95 to install without bombing at the > first reboot) and was about to submit a PR but then I noticed that > most (all?) port patches are diffs against the RCS (*,v) files. > > OK, I'll do the same, but then I find I don't have any RCS files > on my system. You already got some good suggestions, but I'd like to offer one more. What I usually do is to cd to the directory above the port, copy the port directory to port.Dist, then edit the stuff in the port directory. When I'm done I go back to the directory above and do 'diff -ur port.Dist port > port.diff' and then I'm all set. If I remember I actually use diff -cr because for some silly reason a majority of developers seem to like context diffs better. :) HTH, Doug -- "Stop it, I'm gettin' misty." - Mel Gibson as Porter, "Payback" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message