2004-01-09 Paul Jakma <paul@dishone.st>

	* HACKING: slight changes to make consistent with devel.php on web
	  site. remove 'not yet consensus' as lack of any disagreement can
	  be interpreted that file does reflect such.

diff --git a/HACKING b/HACKING
index d621136f377c288cbf1021f119845d2ef87f6044..9fe61dee0dc34731cc7499609a74bbab10ee2c37 100644 (file)
--- a/HACKING
+++ b/HACKING
@@ -1,11 +1,9 @@
 -*- mode: text; -*-
 
-$Id: HACKING,v 1.4 2004/01/05 20:09:00 gdt Exp $
+$Id: HACKING,v 1.5 2004/01/09 16:34:54 paul Exp $
 
 GUIDELINES FOR HACKING ON QUAGGA
 
-[this is a strawman on which consensus has been neither tested nor reached]
-
 [this is a draft in progress]
 
 Generally, GNU coding standards apply.  The indentation style is a bit
@@ -33,14 +31,16 @@ standards]
 
 PATCH SUBMISSION
 
-* Send a clean diff against the head of CVS.
+* Send a clean diff against the head of CVS in unified diff format, eg by:
+  cvs <cvs opts> diff -uwb ....
 
 * Include ChangeLog and NEWS entries as appropriate before the patch
   (or in it if you are 100% up to date).
 
 * Inclue only one semantic change or group of changes per patch.p
 
-* Do not make gratuitous changes to whitespace.
+* Do not make gratuitous changes to whitespace. See the w and b arguments
+  to diff.
 
 * State on which platforms and with what daemons the patch has been
   tested.  Understand that if the set of testing locations is small,