FreeTDS Development Group

[Luis Lavena <luislavena AT gmail.com>]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 12:09 PM, Ken Collins <ken AT metaskills.net> wrote:
>
> Luis,
>
> In the past I have just seen patches come directly in the email body and 
> sometimes links. I'm not sure this project is VCS crazy like we are with 
> tickets and patches, etc. Unless someone says otherwise, I would just 
> attach patches or links to gists or something to the mailing list. Seems to 
> have worked for others in the past.
>

cp file.ext to file.ext.orig
# edit file.ext
diff -u file.ext.orig file.ext

There is a lot of manual overhead on that simple action. There is also
the lack of history of the changes or against which version/revision
was it implemented.

I can do it, but sometimes I want to take advantage of the tools and
not the tools take advantage of me.

-- 
Luis Lavena
AREA 17
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Perfection in design is achieved not when there is nothing more to add,
but rather when there is nothing more to take away.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry