From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 8 15:21:27 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B5116A4CA for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:21:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rodrigc@crodrigues.org) Received: from rwcrmhc12.comcast.net (rwcrmhc12.comcast.net [216.148.227.152]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A1D13C4B6 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:21:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rodrigc@crodrigues.org) Received: from c-66-31-35-94.hsd1.ma.comcast.net ([66.31.35.94]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with ESMTP id <20070208152123m12006ij55e>; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:21:23 +0000 Received: from c-66-31-35-94.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (localhost.crodrigues.org [127.0.0.1]) by c-66-31-35-94.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l18FLMoU004033 for ; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:21:23 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc@c-66-31-35-94.hsd1.ma.comcast.net) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by c-66-31-35-94.hsd1.ma.comcast.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Submit) id l18FLMvV004032 for freebsd-doc@freebsd.org; Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:21:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc) Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 10:21:22 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20070208152122.GA4021@crodrigues.org> References: <20070208045831.GA1340@crodrigues.org> <20070208130255.GB92089@iib.unsam.edu.ar> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070208130255.GB92089@iib.unsam.edu.ar> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Subject: Re: Document for how to work with patches? X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 15:21:27 -0000 On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 10:02:55AM -0300, Fernan Aguero wrote: > Google 'diff patch tutorial' > > Contributing to Open Source Projects HOWTO > http://www.kegel.com/academy/opensource.html > > Diff, Patch, and Friends > http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/1237 > > Using diff and patch (tutorial) > http://www.linuxtutorialblog.com/post/introduction-using-diff-and-patch-tutorial > > How to Prepare a Patch > http://cocoon.apache.org/2.1/howto/howto-patch.html > > How to create and use a patch in Linux > http://www.cpqlinux.com/patch.html > > and many many more ... Thanks, these are very good documents, and what I was looking for. It would be nice to have a similar document in the FreeBSD docs somewhere, because over time, we cannot rely on these URL's to always be valid. Even having a FreeBSD doc which linked to the above documents (maybe on the wiki?) would not be a bad start. The reason I thought about this was that I have occasionally seen posts on the FreeBSD mailing lists for people who want to submit changes, or try new changes, but don't know how to create patches or use them. -- Craig Rodrigues rodrigc@crodrigues.org