On Fri, 25 Oct 2002 05:03, Peter Royal wrote: > On Thursday, October 24, 2002, at 02:58 PM, Robert wrote: > > Forgive me for asking this off topic question, but I've looked around > > the net a bit and can't seem to find an answer. I know that when > > submitting a patch for some piece of code you like to have the patch > > submitted by doing a "diff -u" command, correct? > > You don't *have* to use "-u", it just makes the patch more > human-readable.
And it makes errors less likely to occur. Because it has a header/trailer to each change and if they don't match the "chunk" will be rejected when you try to apply it. -- Cheers, Peter Donald -------------------------------------------- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. -- Benjamin Franklin -------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-dev-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:avalon-dev-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
