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| author | Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-11 20:15:56 +0000 |
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| committer | Dima Dorfman <dd@FreeBSD.org> | 2001-08-11 20:15:56 +0000 |
| commit | 5629b5872784e52133ef249aac57d34ecee98e4a (patch) | |
| tree | adf23ae978eb914e9a2c439d933604f72a7974b7 /en_US.ISO8859-1/articles | |
| parent | 72027ff0660c29709f7dd1fcf92722f1dd630bd7 (diff) | |
| download | doc-5629b5872784e52133ef249aac57d34ecee98e4a.tar.gz doc-5629b5872784e52133ef249aac57d34ecee98e4a.zip | |
Mention that [PATCH] in the synopsis of a PR could indicate that the
PR includes a patch suitable for committing. I don't think this is
the best place to put something like this, but it's better than
nothing.
Submitted by: pavalos@theshell.com
Notes
Notes:
svn path=/head/; revision=10307
Diffstat (limited to 'en_US.ISO8859-1/articles')
| -rw-r--r-- | en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml index 32b8350e94..f8145c6234 100644 --- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml +++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing/article.sgml @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ <!-- The FreeBSD Documentation Project - $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml,v 1.466 2001/08/09 23:42:30 chern Exp $ + $FreeBSD: doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/contrib/chapter.sgml,v 1.467 2001/08/10 22:58:11 chern Exp $ --> <chapter id="contrib"> @@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ url="http://www.FreeBSD.org/send-pr.html">WEB-based equivalent</ulink>. Try to fill-in each field of the bug report. Unless they exceed 65KB, include any patches directly in the report. + If the patch is suitable to be applied to the source tree put + <literal>[PATCH]</literal> in the synopsis of the report. When including patches, <emphasis>do not</emphasis> use cut-and-paste because cut-and-paste turns tabs into spaces and makes them unusable. Consider compressing patches and using &man.uuencode.1; if they exceed @@ -268,8 +270,9 @@ <emphasis>Do not</emphasis> just send the diffs to the &a.hackers; or they will get lost! We greatly appreciate your submission (this is a volunteer project!); because we are busy, we may not be able to - address it immediately, but it will remain in the pr database until we - do.</para> + address it immediately, but it will remain in the PR database until we + do. Indicate your submission by including <literal>[PATCH]</literal> + in the synopsis of the report.</para> <indexterm> <primary><command>uuencode</command></primary> |