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@@ -396,11 +396,15 @@ guidelines in mind: create race conditions, is inefficient, violates the principle of least surprise and lacks robustness. -- Send your patches as unified diffs. You can make these with - 'diff -u'. - -- Send small, incremental diffs that affect a single function. Don't - cram massive, unrelated patches into a single diff. +- Send small, incremental diffs that do one thing. Don't cram unrelated + changes into a single diff. + +- Generate patches preferably against the git repository, with "git + format-patch origin/master" (assuming the diff was against the + origin/master branch), and don't forget the entry for the CHANGES file + if you feel that the change deserves one. If you don't have git + available or can't access the repository for some reason, generate + patches as unified diffs ('diff -u'). - If your code was written for a particular platform, try to make it portable to other platforms, so that everyone may enjoy it. If your |