From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4754 invoked by alias); 9 Jul 2011 07:32:01 -0000 Received: (qmail 4738 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Jul 2011 07:31:59 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED,DKIM_VALID,FREEMAIL_FROM,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail-iw0-f169.google.com (HELO mail-iw0-f169.google.com) (209.85.214.169) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:31:32 +0000 Received: by iwn8 with SMTP id 8so2782684iwn.0 for ; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:31:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.42.52.133 with SMTP id j5mr3074304icg.348.1310196691258; Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:31:31 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.42.213.134 with HTTP; Sat, 9 Jul 2011 00:31:11 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: From: Mike Frysinger Date: Sat, 09 Jul 2011 07:50:00 -0000 Message-ID: Subject: Re: How do I create a developer account To: Abhijit Halder Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 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: 2011-07/txt/msg00264.txt.bz2 On Sat, Jul 9, 2011 at 02:59, Abhijit Halder wrote: > 1. To submit a patch do I need a bug-id? no > 2. If I am planning to introduce a new feature (enhancement) how to > get a bug-id for that. you dont need one > 3. To create a patch do I need to do a CVS diff (or simple diff > command is sufficient, if then what option should I use). With > anonymous CVS login I could not do a cvs update or cvs diff. anonymous cvs accounts can do update/diff just fine. all patches should be in the unified diff format and be made from the top of the tree. there is also a read-only git mirror if you want to use that for development instead. -mike