Re: state of the release: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

[Carl Sorensen]

On 5/27/10 9:38 AM, "Graham Percival" <address@hidden> wrote:

> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Kieren MacMillan
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hopefully, when Lilypond is ready to make my development startup easy, I'll
>> have time for Lilypond development. In the meantime, perhaps I can send diff
>> files -- if that process isn't too difficult -- for simple(r) patches, like
>> my underline enhancement.
> 
> The process for a diff is:
> 
> 1)   mv file file.old

I think you want to use cp, not mv, don't you?  That way you still have file
available for editing.


> 2)   ... edit file...  (if you've already edited the file, then you
> could grab the original from gitweb or something like that)
> 3)  diff -u file.old file > foo.diff

Thanks, for clarifying the > foo.diff part.  I forgot that part of it.

> 4)  send email with foo.diff attached.

Thanks,

Carl