docs/147268: Imporve Porters Handbook section 4.4 - Patching

[Jason Helfman]

The following reply was made to PR docs/147268; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Jason Helfman <jhelfman at e-e.com>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, aldis at bsdroot.lv
Cc:  
Subject: Re: docs/147268: Imporve Porters Handbook section 4.4 - Patching
Date: Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:28:35 -0700

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  	<programlisting>USE_DOS2UNIX=    yes
  DOS2UNIX_REGEX=  .*\.(c|cpp|h)</programlisting>
 +
 +	<para>If you want to create a patch file based off of an original 
 +	 file, you can copy the original file to a <emphasis>.orig</emphasis>
 +	 extension and then modify the original file. Run <maketarget>makepatch
 +	 </maketarget>, and this will write out an appropriate patch file 
 +	 to the files directory of the port. If you feel the &os; community 
 +	 would benefit from your patch, you
 +	 may <ulink
 +	 url="&url.base;/send-pr.html">submit a problem report</ulink> for 
 +	 consideration.</para>
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