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Gnucash 1.7.x README.patches file. Gnucash 1.9.x README.patches file.
NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE!!! THIS VERSION HAS NOT NOTE: THIS IS A DEVELOPMENT RELEASE!!! THIS VERSION HAS NOT
BEEN TESTED PROPERLY AND MAY DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING! BEEN TESTED PROPERLY AND MAY DO ABSOLUTELY ANYTHING!
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Submitting a Patch: Submitting a Patch:
Once you have done some work that you would like to submit, you need Once you have done some work that you would like to submit, you need
to send a patch. There is a perl script called make-gnucash-patch to send a patch. There are two ways to submit a patch. First, if
provided with the distribution that you can use to create the you're using CVS and only made changes to existing CVS files you
patch. Here is how to use that perl script. can generate the patch using:
cvs -q diff -u > /tmp/mypatch
and send /tmp/mypatch into the developers. Note that this ONLY WORKS
if you have NOT added any new files to the source tree. If you've
added new files then you should use a script called "make-gnucash-patch"
to help you create the patch for submission.
The script make-gnucash-patch is a perl script provided with the
gnucash distribution that you can use to create your patch. The
rest of this file explains how to use that perl script.
This file comes in two parts: This file comes in two parts:
- A quick summary of the common ways to use make-gnucash-patch; and - A quick summary of the common ways to use make-gnucash-patch; and