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=head2 How to create a patch using Subversion

The DBI source code is maintained using Subversion (a replacement
for CVS, see L<http://subversion.tigris.org/>). To access the source
you'll need to install a Subversion client. Then, to get the source
code, do:

  svn checkout http://svn.perl.org/modules/dbi/trunk

If it prompts for a username and password use your perl.org account
if you have one, else just 'guest' and 'guest'. The source code will
be in a new subdirectory called C<trunk>.

To keep informed about changes to the source you can send an empty email
to dbi-changes@perl.org after which you'll get an email with the
change log message and diff of each change checked-in to the source.

After making your changes you can generate a patch file, but before
you do, make sure your source is still upto date using: