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-$Id: HACKING,v 1.4 2004/01/05 20:09:00 gdt Exp $
+$Id: HACKING,v 1.5 2004/01/09 16:34:54 paul Exp $
GUIDELINES FOR HACKING ON QUAGGA
-[this is a strawman on which consensus has been neither tested nor reached]
-
[this is a draft in progress]
Generally, GNU coding standards apply. The indentation style is a bit
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PATCH SUBMISSION
-* Send a clean diff against the head of CVS.
+* Send a clean diff against the head of CVS in unified diff format, eg by:
+ cvs <cvs opts> diff -uwb ....
* Include ChangeLog and NEWS entries as appropriate before the patch
(or in it if you are 100% up to date).
* Inclue only one semantic change or group of changes per patch.p
-* Do not make gratuitous changes to whitespace.
+* Do not make gratuitous changes to whitespace. See the w and b arguments
+ to diff.
* State on which platforms and with what daemons the patch has been
tested. Understand that if the set of testing locations is small,