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Re: berlios closing; where should my projects escape to?



On Oct 20, 2011, at 08:48 AM, Alex Chiang wrote:

>The lowest common denominator is patch(1).
>
>So all you really need to know how to do is use the upstream's
>tool to obtain the source:
>
>	git clone
>	bzr branch
>	svn co
>	etc.
>
>Then, you can import the source into your favorite dvcs system,
>hack to your heart's content, and generate patches.
>
>I'm sure most upstreams would love quality contributions of any
>sort, and would be happy to get plain old patch output.
>
>That shouldn't be too onerous for anyone to learn. And if it is,
>I think that there's another reason for not contributing,
>unrelated to whatever tools upstream is using.

*Excellent* points!

-Barry

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