Change 16428 by jhi@alpha on 2002/05/06 12:12:59
Ultimate discouragement for the old tools, from Andreas.
Affected files ...
.... //depot/perl/MANIFEST#877 edit
.... //depot/perl/Porting/p4d2p#3 delete
.... //depot/perl/Porting/p4desc#8 delete
.... //depot/perl/Porting/repository.pod#6 edit
Differences ...
==== //depot/perl/MANIFEST#877 (text) ====
Index: perl/MANIFEST
--- perl/MANIFEST#876~16419~ Sun May 5 15:15:48 2002
+++ perl/MANIFEST Mon May 6 05:12:59 2002
@@ -2206,8 +2206,6 @@
Porting/genlog Generate formatted changelogs by querying p4d
Porting/Glossary Glossary of config.sh variables
Porting/makerel Release making utility
-Porting/p4d2p Generate standard patches from p4 diffs
-Porting/p4desc Smarter 'p4 describe', outputs diffs for new files
Porting/p4genpatch Obsoletes both p4desc and p4d2p
Porting/patching.pod How to report changes made to Perl
Porting/patchls Flexible patch file listing utility
==== //depot/perl/Porting/repository.pod#6 (text) ====
Index: perl/Porting/repository.pod
--- perl/Porting/repository.pod#5~11447~ Sun Jul 22 21:57:49 2001
+++ perl/Porting/repository.pod Mon May 6 05:12:59 2002
@@ -328,9 +328,9 @@
Generating a patch for change#42 is done as follows:
- % p4 describe -du 42 | p4desc | p4d2p > change-42.patch
+ % p4genpatch 42 > change-42.patch
-F<p4desc> and F<>p4d2p> are to be found in //depot/perl/Porting/.
+F<p4genpatch> is to be found in //depot/perl/Porting/.
The usual routine to apply a patch is
@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@
% p4 describe -du 12345 # show change 12345
Note: the output of "p4 describe" is not in proper diff format, use
-the F<Porting/p4d2p> to convert.
+the F<Porting/p4genpatch> to get a diff-compatible format.
% p4 diff -se ./... # have I modified something but forgotten
# to "p4 edit", easy faux pas with autogenerated
End of Patch.
