On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 13:07:53 +1200 Jonathan Chen j...@chen.org.nz said
On Sun, 5 Jul 2020 at 12:47, Brandon helsley <brandon.hels...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I have gotten a couple of emails from portscout about ports that need updated > and maintained. Before I go about updating and maintaining these ports I wanted > to do some practice on a couple that I use like x11/nvidia-settings. I have > recieved alot of help on the forums and from the documentation, but i'm still > at a loss as to how the diff process works. [...] This is my personal workflow: 1. Take a simple copy of the port into my working directory 2. Get the port working in my working directory. 3. cd my-working-directory 4. diff -ruN /usr/ports/x11/nvidia-settings . > /tmp/nvidia-settings.patch
I believe that "svn diff" is the preferred method for generating patches.
5. submit patch onto bugs.freebsd.org Hope that helps. -- Jonathan Chen <j...@chen.org.nz> _______________________________________________ freebsd-ports@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
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