Just to throw an idea out. One piece that makes submitting patches difficult is patch file creation. Often patches are generated in-the-line-of-duty as it were and then the change is submitted back to the community. Often the temptation, at least for me, is to submit the raw edited file rather than a cvs patch file. My question is why not? Why can't patch files be automatically derived on submission of a complete file or on-the-fly comparison on request.<br>
<br>The advantage of a complete file is context, a patch files shows only a subset of the the file relating to the changes but not necessarily how it relates to the rest of the code. The obvious disadvantage to whole file submission having to submit files 1 to 1 instead of a single patch file incorporating all changes. That however again is not per say a bad thing as individual files could then be approved/denied. The main issue I can really see is that there are no version tags
within the files themselves. If those version numbers were added it
should be fairly trivial to automatically generate the patch files against the corresponding base file.<br><br>Just a thought.<br>