From 3c896b996c2a7fea6176094266c822e4acf76ee5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Huber Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2020 16:27:23 +0100 Subject: eng: Remove "Generating a Tools Patch" This section is probably some left over stuff from CVS times. The topic is already covered by the "Software Development (Git Users)" section. --- eng/coding-gen-patch.rst | 35 ----------------------------------- 1 file changed, 35 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 eng/coding-gen-patch.rst (limited to 'eng/coding-gen-patch.rst') diff --git a/eng/coding-gen-patch.rst b/eng/coding-gen-patch.rst deleted file mode 100644 index 1781d89..0000000 --- a/eng/coding-gen-patch.rst +++ /dev/null @@ -1,35 +0,0 @@ -.. SPDX-License-Identifier: CC-BY-SA-4.0 - -.. Copyright (C) 2018. -.. COMMENT: RTEMS Foundation, The RTEMS Documentation Project - -Generating a Tools Patch -************************ - -.. COMMENT:TBD - Convert the following to Rest and insert into this file -.. COMMENT:TBD - https://devel.rtems.org/wiki/Developer/Coding/GenerateAPatch - -The RTEMS patches to the development tools are generated using a command like this - -.. code block:: shell - diff -N -P -r -c TOOL-original-image TOOL-with-changes >PATCHFILE - -where the options are: - -* -N and -P take care of adding and removing files (be careful not to -include junk files like file.mybackup) - -* -r tells diff to recurse through subdirectories -* -c is a context diff (easy to read for humans) -* -u is a unified diff (easy for patch to apply) - -Please look at the generated PATCHFILE and make sure it does not contain -anything you did not intend to send to the maintainers. It is easy to -accidentally leave a backup file in the modified source tree or have a -spurious change that should not be in the PATCHFILE. - -If you end up with the entire contents of a file in the patch and can't -figure out why, you may have different CR/LF scheme in the two source -files. The GNU open-source packages usually have UNIX style CR/LF. If -you edit on a Windows platform, the line terminators may have been -transformed by the editor into Windows style. -- cgit v1.2.3