Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Source Text-string typo (spelling) corrections

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 13:46:48 -0600
Bill Meier wrote:
> FWIW I've done a pass over the Ethereal .c source files extracting "words" 
> from quoted text strings and then doing some (somewhat manual)
> reviewing for spelling, typos, etc.
> 
> The review found words needing correction such as: 
>   lenght, accesing, adress, incomming, incrising, inacurate,
>   negociation, occuring, priviliges, redunadant and so on.
> 
> I've identified corrections for about 40 source files (mostly 
> dissectors) with usually one or two changes per file.
> 
> I'm happy to submit the changes. 
> 
> Given that there are about 40 files to update, what is the best way 
> to submit the patches ?
> 
> (I'm not at all familiar with SVN, but I could imagine there's a way
> to somehow put all the patches in one file/script).

You should be able to generate one diff file with "svn diff".  Once
that's done, just send the patch (as an attachment) to ethereal-dev or
attach it to a bug report at http://bugs.ethereal.com.