svn commit: r53150 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports
Mark Linimon
linimon at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 14 09:41:36 UTC 2019
Author: linimon
Date: Fri Jun 14 09:41:35 2019
New Revision: 53150
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53150
Log:
Mention "svn diff" in Attaching Patches or Files. While here, try to
make the paragraph make sense.
Reviewed by: koobs
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml
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--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml Fri Jun 14 09:29:27 2019 (r53149)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml Fri Jun 14 09:41:35 2019 (r53150)
@@ -539,10 +539,12 @@
<title>Attaching Patches or Files</title>
<para>When attaching a patch, be sure to use
- <option>-u</option> with &man.diff.1;
- to create or unified diff
- and make sure to specify the exact SVN revision numbers of the
- files you modified so the developers who read your report will
+ either <command>svn diff</command> or
+ &man.diff.1; with the <option>-u</option> option
+ to create a unified diff
+ and make sure to specify the SVN revision number of the
+ repository against which you modified files,
+ so the developers who read your report will
be able to apply them easily. For problems with the kernel or
the base utilities, a patch against &os.current; (the HEAD
Subversion branch) is preferred since all new code should be
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