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2002-11-05 Casper S. Hornstrup <chorns@users.sourceforge.net>

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* dev/shcode/mailpatch.xml: Use "cvs diff -up" instead of "diff".

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2002-11-05 Casper S. Hornstrup <chorns@users.sourceforge.net>
* dev/shcode/mailpatch.xml: Use "cvs diff -up" instead of "diff".
2002-11-05 Casper S. Hornstrup <chorns@users.sourceforge.net>
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<listitem>Make sure that your patch is against the latest code from CVS.</listitem>
<listitem>Where you have made changes to an existing source file, you will use diff to obtain a file that contains only the changes that you have made:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>Make sure you have diff.exe on your system. If you don't, you can obtain it from <ulink url="http://www.cygwin.com/">http://www.cygwin.com/</ulink>, click on their "Install Cygwin now" link (diff can be found under the Base category).</listitem>
<listitem>You must have both the old version of the file, and your new modified version to make the diff.</listitem>
<listitem>To create the diff file:
<listitem>Make sure you have cvs and diff on your system (cvs.exe and diff.exe on Windows). If you use Windows and don't have these tools, you can obtain WinCVS from <ulink url="http://www.wincvs.org/">http://www.wincvs.org/</ulink> (remember to put the WinCVS directory in your path).</listitem>
<listitem>To create the patch:
<programlisting>
diff.exe file1 file2 > mypatch.dif
cvs diff -up file1 file2 > mypatch.diff
</programlisting>
</listitem>
<listitem>If you have changed many files, then you can avoid typing each filename by doing this:
<programlisting>
cd &lt;top-directory-for-all-changed-files&gt;
cvs diff -up > mypatch.diff
</programlisting>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>