[BRLTTY] Contraction patch: Limeade, grapeade

[Daniel Dalton]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 09:11:27AM -0400, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [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".

Exactly, ls *.diff -1 && ls *.patch -1  or something.

> 
> >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

You can indeed, I think this also works for the "revert" command, see
the svn documentation for more details.

> 
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