docs/159742: [PATCH] articles/contributing-ports diff gives incorrect instructions
Chris Rees
utisoft at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 15:40:10 UTC 2011
>Number: 159742
>Category: docs
>Synopsis: [PATCH] articles/contributing-ports diff gives incorrect instructions
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-doc
>State: open
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>Class: doc-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sat Aug 13 15:40:10 UTC 2011
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Chris Rees
>Release: FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 i386
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>Environment:
System: FreeBSD zeus.bayofrum.net 8.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sat Apr 30 15:09:06 BST 2011 root at zeus.bayofrum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZEUS i386
>Description:
The guy at ports/159735 was censured for sending in a normal diff for his port, and meekly replied that he was following instructions -- he was indeed!
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- contributing-ports-diff.diff begins here ---
Index: article.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/article.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 article.sgml
--- article.sgml 26 Nov 2009 21:20:01 -0000 1.5
+++ article.sgml 13 Aug 2011 15:26:45 -0000
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
<note>
<para>Please do not submit a &man.shar.1; archive of the
- entire port; instead, use &man.diff.1; <literal>-r</literal>.
+ entire port; instead, use &man.diff.1; <literal>-ruN</literal>.
In this way, committers can much more easily see exactly
what changes are being made. The Porter's Handbook
section on
--- contributing-ports-diff.diff ends here ---
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