Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader01.eternal-september.org!mit.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Hadron Quark Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: How to Make a Patch Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2018 11:39:00 +0100 Organization: turdv owners club Lines: 21 Message-ID: <87efab6u63.fsf@gmail.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: mit.eternal-september.org; posting-host="8bd1b62db70b310955ea1501fa35f3e9"; logging-data="1918"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19/6Nw2Yie94fDwap5ohx1pkwHdzGCl1pY=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:lpGvkLD01C8w+QQhJy6uyRIkmis= sha1:t/wL0sfRCFq+dsJNFfd0hDJmZH8= Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.advocacy:481695 "F. Russell" writes: > Contributing to the mighty FOSS movement often means supplying > a source code patch. Here is how to make a patch file: > > diff -urB old-source new-source > file.patch > > That's it! Just create and modify a copy of the source code, > which can be a directory tree or a single file, and then run > the above command. > > Warning! Don't try this with Microshit Winblows. You'll > have to validate your debit card several times over at the > Microshit store -- and that assumes that you can even find > the source! > You seem to be confusing the OS and the tools we use on it to develop SW. ALl the best diff tools exist on windows too and and many of the better ones ONLY on Windows. But you know that.Or should know that.