Question about a patch
Matthew Seaman
m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk
Wed Jan 2 08:43:07 PST 2008
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Valerio Daelli wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am about to send a patch about a port. I would like to move a file
> of the port, located in the
> 'files/' directory. Basically the file now is called netdisco.sh.in
> and I would like to call it
> netdisco.in.
> If I use a normal 'diff -ruN' command to generate the patch, after I
> apply the patch
> the new file is created but the old file (netdisco.sh.in) is still
> there, with zero size.
> I wonder if I should generate a shar archive for this port instead of a patch.
> Sorry if this question is so simple.
>
Just send in the 'diff -Nur' output, but make a note in your PR
that the filename has been changed. The committer will be able to
make it all right in CVS.
Cheers,
Matthew
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