[BRLTTY] Contraction patch: Limeade, grapeade

[Dave Mielke]

[quoted lines by Lee Maschmeyer on 2009/03/25 at 09:00 -0400]

>>- Use the .patch or .diff or no extension at all, not .txt.
>
>Why? This is Linux, where filename extensions are next to ignored.

It's just convention. For example, for those of us with way too many files 
lying around, it's much easier to look for something like "*.patch".

>One place where they are not ignored is Emacs, where using the .patch suffix 
>results in the buffer's being read-only. This is not good as I have to 
>remove a hunk that updates my Alva driver the way I want it. I doubt the 
>driver's author would want to do it my way instead of his way.

You can make the patch for just the file(s) you changed. For example:

   svn diff Tables/en-us-g2.ctb >brltty-limeade.patch

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