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<para>Please only use characters <literal>[-+._a-zA-Z0-9]</literal> for |
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<para>Please only use characters <literal>[-+._a-zA-Z0-9]</literal> for |
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naming your patches. Do not use any other characters besides them. |
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naming your patches. Do not use any other characters besides them. |
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Do not name your patches like <filename>patch-aa</filename> or |
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Do not name your patches like <filename>patch-aa</filename> or |
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<filename>patch-ab</filename> etc, always mention path and file name |
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<filename>patch-ab</filename> etc, always mention the path |
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and file name |
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in patch names.</para> |
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in patch names.</para> |
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<para>Do not put RCS strings in patches. CVS will mangle them when we |
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<para>Do not put RCS strings in patches. CVS will mangle them when we |
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<para>If you want to create a patch file based off of an |
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<para>If you want to create a patch file based off of an |
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existing file, you can copy it with an |
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existing file, you can copy it with an |
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<filename>.orig</filename> extension, and then modify the |
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<filename>.orig</filename> extension, and then modify the |
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original one. Run <maketarget>makepatch</maketarget>, and |
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original one. The <maketarget>makepatch</maketarget> target |
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this will write out an appropriate patch file to the <filename |
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will write out an appropriate patch file to the <filename |
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class="directory">files</filename> directory of the |
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class="directory">files</filename> directory of the |
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port.</para> |
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port.</para> |
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