Re: patch tutorial?

[Thomas E. Dickey]

On Wed, 8 Aug 2001, Ken Weingold wrote:

> Does anyone know of any sites with tutorials on the basics of writing
> patches?  I would like to modify an older patch, but need some
> basic direction on what I am looking at.

none needed:

        apply the older patch to current baseline (look at .rej files and
        apply the missing chunks).

        test the patched source

        apply new changes, diff against the patched source to make a new
        patch.

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