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[Carl Poirier <carl.poirier.2@xxxxxxxxx>]

It depends. The patch might only be correcting some mistakes which don't
take up many lines, for example a pad placement. Furthermore, what's great
with git and github is that the contributor will get the commit made in his
name. I don't see any inconvenience however in receiving an updated
.kicad_mod file by email.


On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 11:58 AM, Kaspar Emanuel
<kaspar.emanuel@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> On 23 March 2014 17:48, Dick Hollenbeck <dick@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Or:
> >
> > can just send the revised *.kicad_mod files.  (It does not get easier
> than that.)
> > The recipient can simply copy them to the correct dir, rather than
> applying a patch, and
> > take it from there.
>
>
> Yeah, that's probably just as good. My recent patch[1] for
> Pin_Headers.pretty had 3,242 additions and 3,242 deletions. So the
> patch was about as big as the files and applying it is just as good as
> overwriting everything really. The advantage of patches for code
> doesn't really translate to design files.
>
> [1]:https://github.com/KiCad/Pin_Headers.pretty/pull/2/files
>
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