patch upgrade for port committers?

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 17:01:44 -0600 (CST)
Stephen Montgomery-Smith <stephen at missouri.edu> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010, Charlie Kester wrote:
> 
> > On Thu 28 Jan 2010 at 13:37:06 PST Doug Barton wrote:
> >>
> >> Any time you send someone a patch for any reason that deletes an
> >> existing file it is worthwhile to call the person's attention to
> >> this fact.
> >>
> >> When you submit a port/update that ADDS a file it is definitely
> >> worthwhile to mention this as well.
> >
> > Good advice that should be added to the porter's handbook.
> 
> In huge letters.
> 
> Also, I have taken to using shar files instead of diff's when
> creating new files.

Don't please, it makes committer's work harder.
And update to a port should be a diff. Preferably a cvs diff -u.


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