How to submit a patch

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  • All your patches are belong to us!

We love getting patches, and submitting one to us is really easy.

  1. Make sure the bug isn't already being worked on by looking to see if it's been assigned to anyone. If it has, you might want to e-mail that person first.
  2. Get the latest sources from our Subversion. We'll assume you have it in ~/emergent
  3. Hack the code to do what you want
  4. Test everything very carefully and be sure to consider possible side effects. If you can test your code on a completely different platform, that's a good idea.
  5. Now create a patch file. It works something like this: cd ~/emergent/src/temt/ta; diff -u ta_type.h_ORIG ta_type.h > my.patch
  6. Submit a ticket with the patch type, using the description field to give us a complete description of your patch and the environments it was tested on. Add the patch as an attachment. This will show up in our inboxes.

Thanks!

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