From: Tim Bird <tim.bird@am.sony.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.2] Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:23:56 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4023CDAC.3080807@am.sony.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040205201309.4dac8b8c.rddunlap@osdl.org>
> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:45:09 -0800 jw schultz <jw@pegasys.ws> wrote:
> It would be _great_ if the Documentation was more accurate to the
> taste of developers/maintainers...
> | > --- linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches.orig 2004-02-04 22:57:55.818563016 -0800
> | > +++ linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches 2004-02-04 23:01:28.799185040 -0800
> | > @@ -33,13 +33,15 @@
I thought the preferred method was:
--- linux-2.6.2.orig/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ linux-2.6.2/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
In other words, I always thought you should have a whole parallel
original tree. This more nicely captures multi-file changes, IMHO, and
I've seen this a great deal.
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Tim Bird
Architecture Group Co-Chair
CE Linux Forum
Senior Staff Engineer
Sony Electronics
E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-02-06 17:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-02-05 7:23 [PATCH 2.6.2] Documentation/SubmittingPatches Bryan Whitehead
2004-02-05 8:18 ` Riley Williams
2004-02-05 19:05 ` Arthur Othieno
2004-02-06 3:45 ` jw schultz
2004-02-06 4:13 ` Randy.Dunlap
2004-02-06 17:23 ` Tim Bird [this message]
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