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Date:      Tue, 28 Jun 2016 16:06:54 +0000 (UTC)
From:      Mathieu Arnold <mat@FreeBSD.org>
To:        doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   svn commit: r49016 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/upgrading
Message-ID:  <201606281606.u5SG6sAG046534@repo.freebsd.org>

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Author: mat
Date: Tue Jun 28 16:06:54 2016
New Revision: 49016
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/49016

Log:
  Remove the mention of shar for updates, and put emphasis on sending diffs.
  
  Reviewed by:	wblock
  Sponsored by:	Absolight
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D7006

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/upgrading/chapter.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/upgrading/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/upgrading/chapter.xml	Tue Jun 28 16:06:51 2016	(r49015)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/upgrading/chapter.xml	Tue Jun 28 16:06:54 2016	(r49016)
@@ -150,9 +150,11 @@
   </important>
 
   <note>
-    <para>Once again, please use &man.diff.1; and not &man.shar.1;
-      to send updates to existing ports!  This helps ports
-      committers understand exactly what is being changed.</para>
+    <para>Please use &man.diff.1; or <command>svn diff</command> to
+      create updates to existing ports.  Other formats include the
+      whole file and make it impossible to see just what has changed.
+      When diffs are not included, the entire update might be
+      ignored.</para>
   </note>
 
   <para>Now that all of that is done, read about



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