docs/159742: [PATCH] articles/contributing-ports diff gives incorrect instructions

Chris Rees utisoft at gmail.com
Sat Aug 13 15:40:10 UTC 2011


>Number:         159742
>Category:       docs
>Synopsis:       [PATCH] articles/contributing-ports diff gives incorrect instructions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-doc
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Aug 13 15:40:10 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Chris Rees
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: FreeBSD zeus.bayofrum.net 8.2-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE-p1 #0: Sat Apr 30 15:09:06 BST 2011 root at zeus.bayofrum.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ZEUS i386


	
>Description:
	The guy at ports/159735 was censured for sending in a normal diff for his port, and meekly replied that he was following instructions -- he was indeed!
>How-To-Repeat:
	
>Fix:

	

--- contributing-ports-diff.diff begins here ---
Index: article.sgml
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/dcvs/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/contributing-ports/article.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.5
diff -u -r1.5 article.sgml
--- article.sgml	26 Nov 2009 21:20:01 -0000	1.5
+++ article.sgml	13 Aug 2011 15:26:45 -0000
@@ -373,7 +373,7 @@
 
 	    <note>
 	      <para>Please do not submit a &man.shar.1; archive of the
-		entire port; instead, use &man.diff.1; <literal>-r</literal>.
+		entire port; instead, use &man.diff.1; <literal>-ruN</literal>.
 		In this way, committers can much more easily see exactly
 		what changes are being made.  The Porter's Handbook
 		section on
--- contributing-ports-diff.diff ends here ---



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