All not exactly correct advice. cvs -d [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs diff -uNp > aa
Then mail aa without mangling it with some sort of email program or as a mime attachment. I use mutt with vim for all my email. Others use emacs as their mail client etc. Do NOT copy and past from an xterm into an email. All tabs get replaced with spaces (among the the bad things that happen). On Sun, Nov 18, 2007 at 11:21:31PM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2007/11/18 17:10, Aaron Hsu wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I want to make sure that I learn the proper way to submit diffs to the list > > for inclusion. I've noticed that I usually don't send them in the right > > format. Does anyone have a simple command or such that demonstrates how to > > properly send in Diffs for existing ports? > > cvs diff -RuN is good (obviously this needs to be against a tree > checked out from some kind of cvs repository, either anoncvs or a > local mirror). > > if you add or remove files (e.g. patches), you can 'cvs add XX' or > 'cvs rm XX' and this file will be included in the patch. (to add/rm > a directory is more fiddly). >
