It depends. The patch might only be correcting some mistakes which don't take up many lines, for example a pad placement. Furthermore, what's great with git and github is that the contributor will get the commit made in his name. I don't see any inconvenience however in receiving an updated .kicad_mod file by email.
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Kaspar Emanuel <[email protected]>wrote: > On 23 March 2014 17:48, Dick Hollenbeck <[email protected]> wrote: > > Or: > > > > can just send the revised *.kicad_mod files. (It does not get easier > than that.) > > The recipient can simply copy them to the correct dir, rather than > applying a patch, and > > take it from there. > > > Yeah, that's probably just as good. My recent patch[1] for > Pin_Headers.pretty had 3,242 additions and 3,242 deletions. So the > patch was about as big as the files and applying it is just as good as > overwriting everything really. The advantage of patches for code > doesn't really translate to design files. > > [1]:https://github.com/KiCad/Pin_Headers.pretty/pull/2/files > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp >
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