[sldev] Patch format question

[Felix Duesenburg]

Hi @ (esp. Linden Devs),

This may be a very little thing but I'm wondering if it would cause any trouble to loosen up the guidelines for the format of submitted patches.

Not sure how many others use a similar setup to work with. I keep a local svn repository where I check in a newly downloaded source version, then I just fix the project files and commit them. For me it would be so much more convenient if I could just use my TortoiseSVN to create patches from there instead of having to do a command line diff. To make a diff patch, I have to export first and then still watch what goes into it and what not and this is error-prone late at night, or early before the second cup of coffee ;).

If instead of this:

diff -ruN -x .svn -x '*.vcproj' -x '*.sln' linden-orig/indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml linden/indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml
--- linden-orig/indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml	2008-04-27 07:05:17.687500000 -0400
+++ linden/indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml	2008-04-27 07:09:50.156250000 -0400

... you get this:

Index: indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml
===================================================================
--- indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml	(revision 4)
+++ indra/newview/app_settings/settings.xml	(working copy)

... would it really disrupt anyone's patterns? I believe you'd have to do some search-and-replace anyway most of the time before a patch can be applied. In the former case the directories may not match, in the latter the revision numbers.

Cheers,
Felix