X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-workers-bounces using -f From: Message-Id: <200403201214.i2KCEJZp018570@speedy.ludd.ltu.se> Subject: djgpp/src/docs/kb/develop.txi: How to diff To: DJGPP-WORKERS Date: Sat, 20 Mar 2004 13:14:19 +0100 (CET) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL78 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-MailScanner: Found to be clean Reply-To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com How about this: Index: djgpp/src/docs/kb/develop.txi =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/djgpp/djgpp/src/docs/kb/develop.txi,v retrieving revision 1.15 diff -p -u -r1.15 develop.txi --- djgpp/src/docs/kb/develop.txi 6 Feb 2003 22:50:09 -0000 1.15 +++ djgpp/src/docs/kb/develop.txi 20 Mar 2004 11:43:23 -0000 @@ -205,6 +205,20 @@ There are currently some problems with p The math co-processor support code, @file{emu387.dxe}, in @file{src/libemu} cannot be built with profiling. + +@section Submitting patches + +When you prepare a patch use @samp{diff -upr djgpp.old djgpp.new} or +@samp{diff -cpr djgpp.old djgpp.new}. The directory names +@samp{djgpp.old} and @samp{djgpp.new} are just examples, but you should +preferably use a descriptive name. + +Similarly if you use cvs diff use @samp{cvs -z3 diff -up djgpp} or +@samp{cvs -z3 diff -cp djgpp}. + +If you have added any new files the option @samp{-N} comes in handy. + + @section Texinfo documentation @subsection Formatting Right, MartinS