update information about patches and what to do with them
diff --git a/ContributionReviews.wiki b/ContributionReviews.wiki index 900819b..4ebb8e6 100644 --- a/ContributionReviews.wiki +++ b/ContributionReviews.wiki
@@ -70,16 +70,10 @@ === Patches === The term "patches" is used to refer to relatively small changes to the -code (and, yes, this definition is intentionally vague). These can either -be in the form of actual output from the `diff` command, or they can be -the contents of the commit log message sent to the -[MailingListsGuidelines#Developer_list developer mailing list] when a -[ContributionReviews#Committers committer] commits a change using `hg`. +code (and, yes, this definition is intentionally vague). Usually these are in the form of output from the `diff` command. It is easy to think of patches as changesets (commits), that are not part of repository history yet and can be passed around. -Patches should be presented for review either in the "unified `diff`" format, -which is the output resulting from the `hg diff` command for Mercurial (the same format -as that produced by `diff -uNr`), in "git patch" format, which is generated by `git diff` if using git, or in `hg patch` format. -using Mercurial: +Patches should be sent for review to the [MailingListsGuidelines#Developer_list developer mailing list] and presented in the "unified `diff`" format, which is de-facto standard for many tools and the output from the `hg diff` command for Mercurial (the same format as that produced by `diff -uNr`). +Using Mercurial: {{{ cd ~/code/melange