From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19973 invoked by alias); 17 Apr 2012 07:00:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 19896 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Apr 2012 07:00:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-5.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,KHOP_RCVD_TRUST,KHOP_THREADED,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_YE,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-qa0-f48.google.com (HELO mail-qa0-f48.google.com) (209.85.216.48) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:00:25 +0000 Received: by qam2 with SMTP id 2so194254qam.0 for ; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:x-system-of-record:x-gm-message-state; bh=eYdiQb0OFixJUCxa6trPCxWNmIWJq2wQNM2smM9mlvg=; b=g+tQD5QxmK5nWU5DXtw1SqHX11CG63daWRLHaVmKlT5FDEyMjIuyK/euzNQsQBnxAu oyb381BGmxjAa5HDK9oxP4iwYMUit+cuzauwDlhtI6yHASpZ+Q9T/onXfHu96k0OmJQ1 HyxB0H50RhD1gIkeRzOY6ok/87MWYje0uOpaqvVP7QNJlWga53x+OF8YETQ83wyqDBan bMRG7lYwbZpJ3JzKiSdd9xyxZYWHw/noWSfRqhxHZlk6eJffA2RCLCrKcH28VF7WT1/7 dszGIqElVfWIbFMQJFSlvU90Le4xDWWNmwOy9Qj4nPM1K7dEAPhbE6wCgi8Dy5l7a53d iFNA== Received: by 10.224.105.138 with SMTP id t10mr8324151qao.94.1334646024944; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:24 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.224.105.138 with SMTP id t10mr8324139qao.94.1334646024779; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.224.35.2 with HTTP; Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:24 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4F8C34A8.30101@redhat.com> References: <20120416144401.GI2852@adacore.com> <4F8C34A8.30101@redhat.com> Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2012 07:26:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFA] - Improve suggestions for generating patches in CONTRIBUTE From: Siva Chandra To: Joel Brobecker , Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=20cf306682a535396804bdda7eee X-System-Of-Record: true X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQkPQPho2BbZTNE8voNvbhydUpR1Y4TPM6H0SbzgUUk4r5EgDPnmv/zLTTgo+TuybNRSEGBvG/M9sIKamrxch/f/Qm00YciDWZZ+O5D6d8K/WJd+XZsLicelYt15/c7il5peqbv5tsrbY6ihI7dXAy/1j7gIXQ== X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-04/txt/msg00450.txt.bz2 --20cf306682a535396804bdda7eee Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-length: 846 Joel> Personally, I'd even get rid of the "diff -cp" alternative. We'll Joel> continue accepting context diffs, but I think that suggesting it, Joel> even if we say later on that we prefer unified diffs, will result Joel> in more patches sent in that format. Pedro> Completely agreed. =A0/me pokes at Stan. =A0:-) Joel> If we do not want to remove Joel> the context diff alternative, then at least let's put it second. I have modified to put the context diff alternative second. I did not remove it altogether as I have not seen more support to removing it. 2012-04-17 Siva Chandra Reddy * 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. 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