Re: Posting patches...

[Tim R. <Ti...@Ca...>]

Patches are typically build by installing two source directories and
patching one of them and then running a recursive diff on them. The
command line could be:

diff -Naur bzflag.orig bzflag.my > bzflag.my.patch

where bzflag.my and bzflag.orig are clean, full source trees.

The new patch file will then have multiple sections like:

diff -Naur vnc-3.3.3r1.orig/vnc_unixsrc/vnc.conf
vnc-3.3.3r1/vnc_unixsrc/vnc.conf
--- vnc-3.3.3r1.orig/vnc_unixsrc/vnc.conf       Wed Dec 31 17:00:00 1969
+++ vnc-3.3.3r1/vnc_unixsrc/vnc.conf    Fri Feb 11 15:25:22 2000
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@

and so on. (actual patch from VNC.. ;-) These are them applied by:

$ cd bzflag
$ patch -p1 < bzflag.my.patch

and then the build goes as normal.

Kenneth Gordon wrote:
> 
> Tim Riker wrote:
> 
> > I'd love to see the new feature patches up there!
> 
> Just out of curiosity, what exactly do you consider a "patch"?  If a
> developer adds a feature that affects a bunch of files, should he (or she!)
> submit just the files that have changed, all the files in a tarball file,
> etc?
> 
> >From the changes I've made, it seems like adding each new flag affects a
> minimum of six files:
> 
>    * include/global.h
>    * src/common/Flag.cxx
>    * src/bzflag/HUDRenderer.cxx
>    * src/bzflag/ShotPath.cxx
>    * src/bzflag/menus.cxx
>    * src/bzfs/bzfs.cxx
> 
> This is just to get everything up and running (including the help menus,
> right-clicking on a tank, the Flag Help that comes up, etc), and this
> doesn't even include adding the new functionality of the flag!!   With the
> number of files that would have to change, it seems to me that tarring
> everything up would certainly make life easiest, but I'm not sure how that
> will affect those poor Microsoft-users out there...  :-)
> 
> -- Ken
> 
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