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Date:      Fri, 29 Jan 2010 15:47:37 +0200
From:      Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu>
Cc:        Charlie Kester <corky1951@comcast.net>, "freebsd-ports@freebsd.org" <freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: patch upgrade for port committers?
Message-ID:  <20100129154737.637b4c5f@it.buh.tecnik93.com>
In-Reply-To: <4B62E4E0.6090006@missouri.edu>
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On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 07:38:40 -0600
Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen@missouri.edu> wrote:

> Ion-Mihai Tetcu wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:01:44 -0600 (CST)
> > Stephen Montgomery-Smith<stephen@missouri.edu>  wrote:
>=20
> >> Also, I have taken to using shar files instead of diff's when
> >> creating new files.
> >
> > Don't please, it makes committer's work harder.
> > And update to a port should be a diff. Preferably a cvs diff -u.
> >
> >
>=20
> I am thinking of something like this:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dports/142360
>=20
> I separated the diff and the shar files - diff for what is already=20
> existing, and shar for new files.
>=20
> Are you saying that you would prefer if I had done a single diff with=20
> "diff -urN"?

I would prefer this:
http://people.tecnik93.com/~itetcu/FreeBSD/How-to-submit-a-diff.txt


> Part of the reason I started to do this is because, even when I had=20
> clear messages like "there are new files XXX and YYY" they would
> still get forgotten by committers.

Yes, we're all only humans.

A single diff for me means:
cd ~/tmp/PCVS
pcvs ci portname
cd portname
/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/getpr pr_no
/usr/ports/Tools/scripts/prpatch
...


Anything else means more.


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