Re: [seq24-users] How to send a patch (and how to make a patch file)

[Guido S. <gui...@ba...>]

Am Wed, 20. May 2009 um 18:42:04 +0200 schrieb Aurelien:

> Hello,

Hi Aurélien,

> Actually, I've written three different patches, which are not dependent
> one from the other, and thus, doing a single patch file for all of those
> is senseless.

yes indeed.

> However, as I never wrote a patch file, I don't know how
> to do so that my patches can be applied with other patches already
> applied to the code.

I would like to follow this procedure:

1) Keep separate source trees for your changes. As we are currently at
   version 0.9.0 you may have

     seq24-0.9.0   (the original)

   and

     seq24-0.9.0.new1 (your private changes; set 1)
     seq24-0.9.0.new2 (your private changes; set 2)

  or something similar.

2) Create patches like this

    diff -Nur seq24-0.9.0 seq24-0.9.0.new > seq24-0.9.0-myfeature.patch

3) Read your patch file carefully and store it at a safe place.

4) Send your patch file to this mailing list.

...

5) Hopefully someone will pick it up and or comment on it (and apply it
   to the repository).

Regards
Guido

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