Gene Buckle writes:
> What is the accepted format for submitting patches?  Is a diff used?  If
> so, what command line is recommended for it?

I admit to being slightly "patch" impaired and have had it blow up on
me more times than I've had it work cleanly.  In addition, I like to
review the submitted changes before I apply them, and I like to do
that with emacs-ediff mode.  Because of the way I prefer to do things,
it's easiest and most convenient for me to receive whole copies of any
files that are changed, rather than just the patches.  Other people do
things differently and prefer just the patches.  I'd recommend using
"diff -c" if you plan to submit just the patches.  That gives a bit of
context around each patch so the patch utility can tell if the
underlying file has changed and fail "gracefully" rather than blindly
applying a diff in the (now) wrong place.

Regards,

Curt.
-- 
Curtis Olson   HumanFIRST Program               FlightGear Project
Twin Cities    curt 'at' me.umn.edu             curt 'at' flightgear.org
Minnesota      http://www.flightgear.org/~curt  http://www.flightgear.org

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