Re: PATCH: contribute.html

[Martin von Loewis <martin at mira dot isdn dot cs dot tu-berlin dot de>]

> The enclosed patch ``legalizes'' current practice.

Unified or context diffs should still be required, and the '-p' option
also helps a lot.

Also, I found that post-processing of CVS diffs is necessary, as patch
might mess up with non-qualified file names. I use the script attached
below for that, which I got from Andreas Jäger (thanks again), who got
it from somebody else.

The only problem this has is if you are creating new files or removing
old one, I have yet to find a good way to make 'cvs diff' produce a
nice patch for that (and yes, I do use '-N').

Martin

#! /usr/bin/perl -wi

while (<>)
{
  if (/^Index: (.*)/) 
    {
      $full = $1;
      ($small) = ($full =~ m=.*/([^\t]*)=);
      print;
      $small || next;
      for (1..4) { $_ = <>; print; }
      for (1..2)
	{
	  $_ = <>;
	  s/$small/$full/;
	  print;
	}
    }
  else
    {
      print;
    }
}