RE: [Avr-libc-corelib] I want to participate

[Weddington, Eric]

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> Subject: [Avr-libc-corelib] I want to participate
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> I just read the nabble archive of the activity over the past 
> several days and while I'm a bit overwhelmed, I would like to 
> participate. I got Eric's link to the CVS book and there is a 
> slight possibility that I still have enough brain cells 
> intact to get up to speed on this. I'll probably need to 
> reread the archive before really getting started. 
>  

Learning CVS is a good thing. But before learning CVS, there is another skill 
that is more important, and that is learning how to use the 'diff' and 'patch' 
utilities to create patches and to use these patches. These utilities are 
collectively called 'diffutils', and here's the GNU manual for these:
<http://www.gnu.org/software/diffutils/manual/>

CVS also uses the patch concept, so if you understand this part, then it will 
help you learning CVS. If you learn how to create patches, then you can 
effectively participate and contribute to an open source project, without 
having to learn CVS first. ;-)