[Mailman-Developers] Contributing code?

Marc MERLIN marc_news@vasoftware.com
Sun, 2 Jun 2002 16:54:37 -0700


On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 04:52:57PM -0700, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 02, 2002 at 06:47:34PM -0500, David Gibbs wrote:
> > At 06:29 PM 6/2/2002, Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> > >Better yet, post it on the SF patch manager, so it doesn't get lost in
> > >my inbox! ;)
> > 
> > Ok.  What's the prescribed method of preparing a good diff?
> > 
> > cvs diff?
> 
> cvs diff -u :-)

Mmmh, no, that'd make your patch inversed.

Make two dirs:
mailman-cvs	mailman-yourtree
and do a diff -urN mailman-cvs mailman-yourtree > yourpatches.diff

Marc
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