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Appendix A. Contributing code to the Torque Game Engine

Table of Contents

Overview
Types of Patches
Contribution Copyright Agreement
General Guidelines
Building the Patch
Submitting the Patch
Patch Rejection

Overview

The ability of members to improve the Torque Game Engine technology is one of the most powerful aspects of the GarageGames community. If you've fixed a bug in the Torque engine or added a new feature, you can submit that change back to GarageGames for inclusion in the Torque SDK. When you do this, everyone in the community benefits from your improvements.

Source code or documentation changes are made with "patch" files. A patch file is composed of differences between two versions of a file, and a patch file can contain the differences for multiple files. To submit code, you must generate a patch file which contains all of your changes, and submit it to a CVS section maintainer.

Patch files are generated using the command line version of CVS. For instructions on downloading and installing CVS, see the Engine Set-up chapter.