Re: [RFA] - Improve suggestions for generating patches in CONTRIBUTE

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 04/16/2012 03:44 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:

> Hello Siva,
> 
>> 2012-04-16  Siva Chandra Reddy  <sivachandra@google.com>
>>
>>         * CONTRIBUTE: Add "cvs diff -up" as a way to generate patches
>>         when accessing the CVS repository.  Add a note saying that the
>>         "-up" flavors of "cvs diff" and "diff" are preferred.
> 
> Thanks for doing that.
> 
> Personally, I'd even get rid of the "diff -cp" alternative. We'll
> continue accepting context diffs, but I think that suggesting it,
> even if we say later on that we prefer unified diffs, will result
> in more patches sent in that format.  


Completely agreed.  /me pokes at Stan.  :-)

> If we do not want to remove
> the context diff alternative, then at least let's put it second.
> 
> What do others think?



-- 
Pedro Alves