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Re: Patch Submission Policy [Doc Patch]

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 8:05 AM, Gerald Pfeifer <gerald@pfeifer.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, Tom Browder wrote:
>  > OK, here is my revised patch and ChangeLog.  I added a small change to
...
>  These two hanks are fine, thanks!  I went ahead and committed both.

Thanks, Gerald.

>  > I added a short blurb for CVS diff.
>
>  This is not correct as far as I can see (and just verified on an
>  older Solaris system).  The use of GNU diff is not neccessary, CVS

You're correct, I should have left out "to use GNU diff" and changed
the sentence to read:

"...configure your cvs diff  command and generate patches using the
same options prescribed for svn above..."

>  itself already is able to handle this.  Given that we barely use
>  CVS any more (only for the web pages) my recommendation is to not
>  add more details than we currently have.

OK.  Are there any plans to convert that CVS repository to SVN?

-Tom
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