diff --git a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml
index 4881075300..7086bc2dd1 100644
--- a/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml
+++ b/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/problem-reports/article.xml
@@ -539,10 +539,12 @@
       <title>Attaching Patches or Files</title>
 
       <para>When attaching a patch, be sure to use
-	<option>-u</option> with &man.diff.1;
-	to create or unified diff
-	and make sure to specify the exact SVN revision numbers of the
-	files you modified so the developers who read your report will
+	either <command>svn diff</command> or
+	&man.diff.1; with the <option>-u</option> option
+	to create a unified diff
+	and make sure to specify the SVN revision number of the
+	repository against which you modified files,
+	so the developers who read your report will
 	be able to apply them easily.  For problems with the kernel or
 	the base utilities, a patch against &os.current; (the HEAD
 	Subversion branch) is preferred since all new code should be