Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 17:28:38 -0700 From: Ngie Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com> To: "Rodney W. Grimes" <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> Cc: Allan Jude <allanjude@freebsd.org>, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD Documentation Message-ID: <AC2B0DEE-B2C6-4A18-882C-8513AEEFB647@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <201710292053.v9TKrCuZ072016@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net> References: <201710292053.v9TKrCuZ072016@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmgr.net>
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> On Oct 29, 2017, at 13:53, Rodney W. Grimes <freebsd-rwg@pdx.rh.CN85.dnsmg= r.net> wrote: >=20 > -- Start of PGP signed section. > [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] >>> On 2017-10-29 11:00, Kurt Jaeger wrote: >>> Hi! >>>=20 >>>> How can we suggest edits for the docs? >>>=20 >>> Checkout the docs repo: >>>=20 >>> svn checkout https://svnweb.freebsd.org/doc/head/ . >>>=20 >>> Change the relevant files, create a new problem report on >>>=20 >>> https://bugs.freebsd.org/ >>>=20 >>> and attach the svn diff to that problem report. >>=20 >> Since the document in question is a man page, it actually lives in the >> src tree. >>=20 >> svn checkout https://svn.freebsd.org/base/head/ . >>=20 >> cd usr.sbin/jail >>=20 >> vi jail.8 >>=20 >> svn diff > jail_manpage.patch >>=20 >> And then attach that patch to a bugzilla, or upload it to >> reviews.freebsd.org >=20 > Lets make this MUCH easier on a user..... > cp /usr/share/man/man8/jail.8.gz /tmp > cd /tmp > gzip -d jail.8.gz > cp -p jail.8 jail.8.orig > vi jail.8 > diff -u jail.8.orig jail.8 >jail.8.patch >=20 > And then attach that patch to a bugzilla.... >=20 > More commands, but much shorter amount of time. >=20 > (Of cource broken if your system is not -current or close to it) No. Just do a sparse checkout of share/man/man8 ... less error prone and one= has a usable diff instead of a diff that might contain local modifications,= or be a few revisions behind. > --=20 > Rod Grimes rgrimes@freebsd= .org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"=
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