From: Hardeep Sidhu <hardeeps_at_pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 19 May 2003 13:37:56 -0700 (PDT)

You don't need to be a registered developer to use cvs
diff, anonymous login works fine.

-Hardeep

--- Garrett Derner <GaryD_at_AdFreeInternet.com> wrote:
> Hello, I have a new-developer question.
>
> When I make a patch, how should I do the diff?
> Since I am not a registered
> developer, I can not use cvs diff. So I have to
> rename, either the old or
> the new file, right?
>
> For instance, I rename the old viewer.c to
> viewer1.4.c, and put it in the
> same directory with my new viewer.c, then do:
>
> diff -u viewer1.4.c viewer.c > viewer.patch
>
> And submit the patch, explaining in the summary that
> you must rename
> viewer.c before you apply the patch. Is that good,
> or is there a preferred
> way?
>
> Garrett
>
>
>
>
>
Received on 2003-05-19