Commit f89ee71b authored by Matt Caswell's avatar Matt Caswell
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Clarify the preferred way of creating patch files



Clarify that git format-patch output is preferred for creating patch files.

Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>
parent 1c2e5d56
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@@ -22,8 +22,14 @@ current Git or the last snapshot. They should follow our coding style
warnings using the --strict-warnings flag.  OpenSSL compiles on many varied
platforms: try to ensure you only use portable features.

Our preferred format for changes is "diff -u" output. One method is to use
"git diff"  Another is to generate it something like this:
Our preferred format for patch files is "git format-patch" output. For example
to provide a patch file containing the last commit in your local git repository
use the following command:

# git format-patch --stdout HEAD^ >mydiffs.patch

Another method of creating an acceptable patch file without using git is as
follows:

# cd openssl-work
# [your changes]