Posting a patch

Posting a patch

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

Hi
Please excuse my ignorance but this not something I have done often
enough to know how to do correctly.

I have written a small patch for the man page lvm.8 that I want to
submit. However I am unsure whether I should be creating a diff with cvs
or diff and then if I use either what type of diff needs to be
submitted.

The lvm page only has guidelines on submitting kernel pathces and that
is more of a coding guideline anyway.

Any help would be appreciated.

Or as suggested by Alasdair to just post the whole new man page seeing
as it is so small.

Regards

Posting a patch

[Bryn M. Reeves]

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Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> I have written a small patch for the man page lvm.8 that I want to
> submit. However I am unsure whether I should be creating a diff with cvs
> or diff and then if I use either what type of diff needs to be
> submitted.

Hi Gerrard,

You can generate the patch either way - whichever you prefer. Either one
should be generated in unified diff format (-u). When I am taking
patches from CVS I normally do:

cd ~/cvs/LVM2
cvs diff -up 2>/dev/null > the.patch

The "-p" causes the diff to include the declaration for the function
being changed - very handy for patches to .c files but probably not
necessary for a man page patch.

Otherwise, I'd do something like:

cd LVM2/
diff -Nurp man/lvm.8.orig man/lvm.8 > the.patch

Again, the -Nrp options probably aren't needed for a man page patch but
that's what I use for generating most of my patches.

Regards,
Bryn.
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Posting a patch

[Gerrard Geldenhuis]

Thanks Bryn,

Here goes nothing...

I have attached a small patch for the lvm.8 man page to detail valid
characters and names. The man pages for pvcreate and lvcreate refer you
to lvm.8 for common options and I thougt it best to include naming
details in lvm.8 rather than duplicating information in each man page. I
have been sparse with making characters/keywords bold.

Regards

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> On Behalf Of Bryn M. Reeves
> Sent: 20 March 2008 13:45
> To: LVM2 development
> Subject: Re: [lvm-devel] Posting a patch
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> Gerrard Geldenhuis wrote:
> > I have written a small patch for the man page lvm.8 that I want to
> > submit. However I am unsure whether I should be creating a diff with
cvs
> > or diff and then if I use either what type of diff needs to be
> > submitted.
> 
> Hi Gerrard,
> 
> You can generate the patch either way - whichever you prefer. Either
one
> should be generated in unified diff format (-u). When I am taking
> patches from CVS I normally do:
> 
> cd ~/cvs/LVM2
> cvs diff -up 2>/dev/null > the.patch
> 
> The "-p" causes the diff to include the declaration for the function
> being changed - very handy for patches to .c files but probably not
> necessary for a man page patch.
> 
> Otherwise, I'd do something like:
> 
> cd LVM2/
> diff -Nurp man/lvm.8.orig man/lvm.8 > the.patch
> 
> Again, the -Nrp options probably aren't needed for a man page patch
but
> that's what I use for generating most of my patches.
> 
> Regards,
> Bryn.
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