Remove obsolete details on how to format a patch. Just point to perlrepository instead.

diff --git a/pod/perlhack.pod b/pod/perlhack.pod
index b4ff426..abd0933 100644 (file)
--- a/pod/perlhack.pod
+++ b/pod/perlhack.pod
@@ -1508,6 +1508,10 @@ C<U> is the first active format during a C<pack>, (for example,
 C<pack "U3C8", @stuff>) then the resulting string should be treated as
 UTF-8 encoded.
 
+If you are working with a git clone of the Perl repository, you will want to
+create a branch for your changes. This will make creating a proper patch much
+simpler. See the L<perlrepository> for details on how to do this.
+
 How do we prepare to fix this up? First we locate the code in question -
 the C<pack> happens at runtime, so it's going to be in one of the F<pp>
 files. Sure enough, C<pp_pack> is in F<pp.c>. Since we're going to be
@@ -1647,36 +1651,6 @@ this text in the description of C<pack>:
  pattern with C<C0> (or anything else) to force Perl not to UTF-8 encode your
  string, and then follow this with a C<U*> somewhere in your pattern.
 
-All done. Now let's create the patch. F<Porting/patching.pod> tells us
-that if we're making major changes, we should copy the entire directory
-to somewhere safe before we begin fiddling, and then do
-
-    diff -ruN old new > patch
-
-However, we know which files we've changed, and we can simply do this:
-
-    diff -u pp.c~             pp.c             >  patch
-    diff -u t/op/pack.t~      t/op/pack.t      >> patch
-    diff -u pod/perlfunc.pod~ pod/perlfunc.pod >> patch
-
-We end up with a patch looking a little like this:
-
-    --- pp.c~       Fri Jun 02 04:34:10 2000
-    +++ pp.c        Fri Jun 16 11:37:25 2000
-    @@ -4375,6 +4375,7 @@
-         register I32 items;
-         STRLEN fromlen;
-         register char *pat = SvPVx(*++MARK, fromlen);
-    +    char *patcopy;
-         register char *patend = pat + fromlen;
-         register I32 len;
-         I32 datumtype;
-    @@ -4405,6 +4406,7 @@
-    ...
-
-And finally, we submit it, with our rationale, to perl5-porters. Job
-done!
-
 =head2 Patching a core module
 
 This works just like patching anything else, with an extra