svn commit: r39245 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook
Warren Block
wblock at FreeBSD.org
Sun Jul 22 21:51:28 UTC 2012
Author: wblock
Date: Sun Jul 22 21:51:27 2012
New Revision: 39245
URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/39245
Log:
Remove obsolete svn diff option.
PR: 170006
Submitted by: beat at freebsd.org
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml Sun Jul 22 16:43:08 2012 (r39244)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.sgml Sun Jul 22 21:51:27 2012 (r39245)
@@ -10371,15 +10371,12 @@ as .putsy.conf and edit it.</programlist
<para>The last step is to make a unified &man.diff.1;
of the files against SVN:</para>
- <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn diff -N > ../`basename ${PWD}`.diff</userinput></screen>
+ <screen>&prompt.user; <userinput>svn diff > ../`basename ${PWD}`.diff</userinput></screen>
<note>
- <para>It is important to use <option>-N</option> to ensure
- that files you have added or removed are accounted for in
- the patch. The patch will include any removed files when
- applied, though the file contents will be empty, so remember
- to include these in the PR so the committer knows to remove
- them.</para>
+ <para>Any files that have been removed should be explicitly
+ mentioned in the PR, because file removal may not be obvious
+ to the committer.</para>
</note>
<para>Send your patch following the guidelines in
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