> > Well, I would assume people are working from a checkout. Patches from > > an outdated checkout simply would fail and that's fine by me. > > Ok, but that's an extra barrier for contributions. Lots of people when > asked for a patch just modify their distro in place and you can count > yourself lucky if they send you a diff from a clean copy. Well, either they're doing a small patch and uploading to Rietveld doesn't bring much anyway; or they're doing a large patch and it may not apply cleanly if they do it against the stable release. So I don't think there's a real problem here. > I used to get these frequently. I don't know what the experience of > the current crop of core developers is though, so maybe my gut > feelings here are outdated. Most patches posted on the tracker are generated either by "SVN diff" or a DCVS equivalent (often hg). Regards Antoine.
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