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

[Weddington, Eric]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jan Waclawek [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 3:34 PM
> To: Weddington, Eric
> Cc: Joe Pardue; address@hidden
> Subject: Re: [Avr-libc-corelib] I want to participate
> 
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:06:51 -0600
> "Weddington, Eric" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> 

Learning CVS is a very good skill to learn for any kind of software 
engineering. ;-) I would still encourage you to learn it because it is still 
the best way to participate in an open source project.

> 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.

Just learn to press "Reply All" on email client. ;-)