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authorAdrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>2007-09-09 22:10:47 +0000
committerAdrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>2007-09-09 22:10:47 +0000
commit5e19019bcac39421adf6e0ee8cc3b3fd2cc1ff08 (patch)
treea00c1640b2b3b33e4f86206d4d1613b9120d07bc /docs
parent84f618249402e8fd5673efbe2604e2b3f17b35a0 (diff)
Added bullet to docs/contributing.txt about creating diffs from the top-level trunk directory
git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@6078 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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diff --git a/docs/contributing.txt b/docs/contributing.txt
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@@ -122,6 +122,11 @@ Patch style
English than in code. Indentation is the most common example; it's hard to
read patches when the only difference in code is that it's indented.
+ * When creating patches, always run ``svn diff`` from the top-level
+ ``trunk`` directory -- i.e., the one that contains ``django``, ``docs``,
+ ``tests``, ``AUTHORS``, etc. This makes it easy for other people to apply
+ your patches.
+
* Attach patches to a ticket in the `ticket tracker`_, using the "attach file"
button. Please *don't* put the patch in the ticket description or comment
unless it's a single line patch.