in reply to Hacking Perl (I think)
You can get a snapshot of blead from http://perl5.git.perl.org/perl.git/snapshot/HEAD.tar.gz.
Although git patches are preferred, one created using diff -u should be acceptable too.
That said it'll be easier to use git, especially when it comes time to rebase your patches when you're about ready to submit them.
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