log DOCS/tech/patches.txt @ 28238:1bf9023840f9

age author description
Tue, 18 Sep 2007 08:36:30 +0000 reimar Explain how to use diff -uwbBE with svn directly
Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:24:00 +0000 diego slight clarification
Thu, 08 Jun 2006 10:09:04 +0000 diego s/CVS/Subversion/
Mon, 01 May 2006 14:46:49 +0000 diego Expand a bit, clarification and grammar fix.
Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:36:13 +0000 attila 10l
Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:32:01 +0000 attila patches should be always created from root dir
Sun, 30 Apr 2006 20:22:38 +0000 attila add section about resending patches
Thu, 03 Mar 2005 11:29:33 +0000 diego Patches should not be sent as replies to unrelated threads.
Tue, 21 Sep 2004 08:39:12 +0000 diego split patches up as far as sensibly possible, but no further.
Mon, 06 Sep 2004 09:05:38 +0000 diego some new patch policy: compression, mail threading, printf vs mp_msg
Thu, 26 Aug 2004 19:46:12 +0000 diego Patches should be gzip or bzip2 compressed if necessary.
Mon, 26 Jul 2004 23:48:30 +0000 diego Wording/spelling suggestions by the Wanderer, merged sections about when to
Mon, 26 Jul 2004 00:52:56 +0000 diego Explain how to handle big patches and why uploading patches is bad.
Wed, 14 Jul 2004 01:11:14 +0000 diego Patches should be created from the root of the source directory, explanation
Sun, 27 Jun 2004 12:38:38 +0000 diego Explain that commenting string operations is important.
Thu, 17 Jun 2004 08:43:18 +0000 diego cosmetic reformatting (preparation for upcoming changes)
Tue, 04 May 2004 14:50:16 +0000 diego Hint at diff options useful for avoiding cosmetic changes, patch by Reimar.
Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:16:58 +0000 diego cosmetics, wording update
Sat, 17 Apr 2004 10:30:25 +0000 diego Patches should not be compressed.
Fri, 02 Apr 2004 23:35:11 +0000 diego cosmetics
Fri, 14 Nov 2003 02:56:50 +0000 diego Contributors should also patch AUTHORS if they wish to appear there.
Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:26:21 +0000 diego _ vs - in option names
Mon, 20 Oct 2003 22:51:20 +0000 diego More precise wording inspired by michaelni.
Mon, 20 Oct 2003 13:46:49 +0000 diego Explain why sending complete files is a bad idea.
Thu, 25 Sep 2003 09:36:30 +0000 diego Comment about translations added.
Thu, 03 Apr 2003 16:21:04 +0000 diego Explain the need for unified diffs.
Tue, 24 Dec 2002 18:41:20 +0000 diego Document things from the start.
Thu, 12 Dec 2002 03:02:03 +0000 diego small updates
Mon, 07 Oct 2002 00:46:57 +0000 diego Some further explanations, dev-eng is now subscribers only.
Fri, 30 Aug 2002 00:53:11 +0000 diego Explain why putting [PATCH] in the subject is important.
Thu, 16 May 2002 09:00:59 +0000 jaf corrections by Diego Biurrun <diego@biurrun.de>
Thu, 17 Jan 2002 00:26:40 +0000 arpi mail formatting added
Sun, 07 Oct 2001 16:34:47 +0000 arpi sending patches