From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265532AbUBFRPo (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:15:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265538AbUBFRPo (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:15:44 -0500 Received: from mail2.fw-sj.sony.com ([160.33.82.69]:53198 "EHLO mail2.fw-sj.sony.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265532AbUBFRPl (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 Feb 2004 12:15:41 -0500 Message-ID: <4023CDAC.3080807@am.sony.com> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:23:56 -0800 From: Tim Bird User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org CC: jw schultz Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6.2] Documentation/SubmittingPatches References: <20040205072303.BCF79FA5F1@mrhankey.megahappy.net> <20040206034509.GI21479@pegasys.ws> <20040205201309.4dac8b8c.rddunlap@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20040205201309.4dac8b8c.rddunlap@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > On Thu, 5 Feb 2004 19:45:09 -0800 jw schultz 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. ============================= Tim Bird Architecture Group Co-Chair CE Linux Forum Senior Staff Engineer Sony Electronics E-mail: Tim.Bird@am.sony.com =============================