Changeset 6078

Timestamp:

09/09/07 17:10:47 (1 year ago)

Author:

adrian

Message:

Added bullet to docs/contributing.txt about creating diffs from the top-level trunk directory

Files:

• django/trunk/docs/contributing.txt (modified) (1 diff)

django/trunk/docs/contributing.txt

@@ -122 +122 @@
-      English than in code. Indentation is the most common example; it's hard to
-      read patches when the only difference in code is that it's indented.
+
+        * When creating patches, always run ``svn diff`` from the top-level
+          ``trunk`` directory -- i.e., the one that contains ``django``, ``docs``,
+          ``tests``, ``AUTHORS``, etc. This makes it easy for other people to apply
+          your patches.
-
-    * Attach patches to a ticket in the `ticket tracker`_, using the "attach file"