svn commit: r53150 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports

Mark Linimon linimon at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jun 14 09:41:36 UTC 2019


Author: linimon
Date: Fri Jun 14 09:41:35 2019
New Revision: 53150
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/53150

Log:
  Mention "svn diff" in Attaching Patches or Files.  While here, try to
  make the paragraph make sense.
  
  Reviewed by:	koobs

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml	Fri Jun 14 09:29:27 2019	(r53149)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml	Fri Jun 14 09:41:35 2019	(r53150)
@@ -539,10 +539,12 @@
       <title>Attaching Patches or Files</title>
 
       <para>When attaching a patch, be sure to use
-	<option>-u</option> with &man.diff.1;
-	to create or unified diff
-	and make sure to specify the exact SVN revision numbers of the
-	files you modified so the developers who read your report will
+	either <command>svn diff</command> or
+	&man.diff.1; with the <option>-u</option> option
+	to create a unified diff
+	and make sure to specify the SVN revision number of the
+	repository against which you modified files,
+	so the developers who read your report will
 	be able to apply them easily.  For problems with the kernel or
 	the base utilities, a patch against &os.current; (the HEAD
 	Subversion branch) is preferred since all new code should be


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