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

[Jan Waclawek]

On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:06:51 -0600
"Weddington, Eric" <address@hidden> wrote:

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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: 
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> > [mailto:address@hidden
> > gnu.org] On Behalf Of Joe Pardue
> > Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 1:53 PM
> > To: address@hidden
> > Subject: [Avr-libc-corelib] I want to participate
> > 
> > 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. ;-)
> 
> 

OK, and couldn't we the stupider part of the world simply skip CVS completely 
once we learn to use diff and patch?

JW


PS. Couldn't this particular forum please be set to the normal way of things, 
namely that plain Re: would reply to the forum rather than the original poster? 
Otherwise you will permanently receive personal messages from me - as you 
might've noted, I *am* that exceptionally dumb.