You don't need to copy over the files to a current checkout,
you could submit a diff from your cvs archive although you
need to excercise some care not to pull in any customization
that is site specific and not suitable for openacs generally.
In general what we are shooting for is a context diff
that is properly formatted to feed to the patch program and
contains a change set that is small enough and close enough
to the existing HEAD or release branch to be applied automatically.
If you have not made the changes on a current checkout,
the next best thing is a diff against the baseline you
used for the site (since it will just be the changes you made). If you take the copying route you run the risk of
generating a patch which will back out other people changes
if other people have made changes to the same file which have been committed to openacs.org.
