[Gnucash-changes] Add information about using cvs to create a patch.
Derek Atkins
warlord at cvs.gnucash.org
Thu Jun 24 10:10:12 EDT 2004
Log Message:
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Add information about using cvs to create a patch.
Tags:
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gnucash-1-8-branch
Modified Files:
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gnucash:
README.patches
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Index: README.patches
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RCS file: /home/cvs/cvsroot/gnucash/README.patches,v
retrieving revision 1.4.4.1
retrieving revision 1.4.4.2
diff -LREADME.patches -LREADME.patches -u -r1.4.4.1 -r1.4.4.2
--- README.patches
+++ README.patches
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- Gnucash 1.7.x README.patches file.
-
-NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE!!! THIS VERSION HAS NOT
-BEEN TESTED PROPERLY AND MAY DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!
-
-USE AT YOUR OWN RISK (AND KEEP *LOTS* OF BACKUPS)
-
-If you want something a bit more tested, please use the
-1.6 stable series.
+ Gnucash 1.8.x README.patches file.
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Submitting a Patch:
Once you have done some work that you would like to submit, you need
- to send a patch. There is a perl script called make-gnucash-patch
- provided with the distribution that you can use to create the
- patch. Here is how to use that perl script.
+ to send a patch. There are two ways to submit a patch. First, if
+ you're using CVS and only made changes to existing CVS files you
+ can generate the patch using:
+
+ cvs -q diff -u > /tmp/mypatch
+
+ and send /tmp/mypatch into the developers. Note that this ONLY WORKS
+ if you have NOT added any new files to the source tree. If you've
+ added new files then you should use a script called "make-gnucash-patch"
+ to help you create the patch for submission.
+
+ The script make-gnucash-patch is a perl script provided with the
+ gnucash distribution that you can use to create your patch. The
+ rest of this file explains how to use that perl script.
This file comes in two parts:
- A quick summary of the common ways to use make-gnucash-patch; and
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